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cliche
Wormsley Glen (the name of a village)
A person like Paley visited Wormlsey Glen and he noticed that everyone had an alarm clock that was preset and everyone in the village had an alarm clock that was set to go off at the exact time to enable every one to get up eat breakfast and get to work on time. Every one went to work at a different time. The villagers explained that they found a pile of alarm clocks that someone (apparently God) had put there and amazingly everyone had picked the right alarm clock that went off at the exact time they needed.
He concluded that was too much of a coincidence to be random and it was by magnificant design. But what he did not know was there were only 200 people living in Wormsley GLen at that time but there had been 200,000 people living there when they found the pile of alarm clocks and 99.9% of the people picked up alarm clocks that did not go off at the right time and they got to work at the wrong time and got fired and starved to death. What he saw was only what remained after the 199,800 had died off.
Many say that when we see what appears to be a perfectly designed universe, they don't realize that there are many imperfections in the universe but the imperfections don't survive and we don't see all the imperfecton.
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