If I were a watch on an otherwise barren planet, Is it logical to assume I was created?

Question

I assume most of you answered yes due to a watches intricacies, but is not all life on earth intricate.

Who edited the juicy bit.

Answer 1

If you are a watch capable of making assumptions, you might logically assume that you have been either lost or abandoned there. If you don't remember how you got there, your memory has been wiped. This may have been deliberate, to avoid leaving clues behind, in which case you could speculate that you have been deliberately left behind.

If you were manufactured for a particular purpose, you will probably find that that purpose is hard-wired into you. If that has been wiped along with your other memories, you're on your own. You might be there for a long time, so you may as well amuse yourself by timing the various recurrent cycles of your new home. Are you synchronized to the local diurnal cycle, or to the day on some now-forgotten home world?

Answer 2

Yes, that it was created somewhere else and then left there.

And if you found a dog on an otherwise barren planet it would be logical to assume it evolved somewhere else and was then left there.

And, specifically, if you found a watch or a dog it would be safe to assume that the watch was created on Earth and the dog evolved on Earth.

Answer 3

The questioner is paraphrasing a famous argument in favor of a god-like creator.

The actual argument is along the lines of 'if i was walking in a meadow and I FOUND a watch, would I not then postulate the existence of a watchmaker?'

The idea is that 'life' is far too complicated to have evolved by itself, and therefore something else must have created it.

Worst. Argument. Ever.

Answer 4

Yes. Because given all the odds and infinite time in the universe it is impossible, by evolution, for iron to change to steel then change to a cog or gear inside a mechanical watch. If you were a thinking watch you would eventually be forced to look for your grand designer.....a supreme deity. Humans are a miracle, the most complex biological machine ever, and we ask where the God of designs is.....just like you. Your question has concerned and occupied the time of philosophers for millenia.

Answer 5

Most certainly... but why would a WATCH be able to make an assumption? Watches are mechanical mechanisms with gears, not sentient beings. However, said watch was most certainly made by a species that was NOT naive to the planet, and is not there anymore.

Logical answer to an illogical queston.

Answer 6

Hmmm...
Yes, logical to assume that you were created....only because you're a watch.
You were left in a barren planet because someone didn't like you much! :-(

**Was thinkin about this one for a bit. How selfish are we humans for thinkin that there are no other higher intellects outside of our own planet earth.
Truthfully, I don't know! Wt are u tryin to get at Mick?

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

What do you mean by created? Intelligent design? Of course created in the sense of designed and made, by highly evolved humans who have used their evolved intelligence through natural selection to design wonderful prieces of equipment, including presumably an FTL drive to drop the watch off on an uninhabited planet in passing.
If your question means 'god or gods' did it, then you are of course joking. I hope.

Answer 9

Shades of Paley! A watch has always been
manufactured by someone, where ever it may be
found. Created from nothing, no.

Answer 10

Watches have to be created, they don't appear out of no-were. Why would a watch be thinking this anyways?