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To give an example, suppose that during a walk in the woods, you were to suddenly and inexplicably come across a wristwatch laying on the path. Would you spontaneously exclaim: “There must have been some amazing confluence of minerals in the soil, moisture, etc. along with perhaps a perfectly-timed lightning bolt that “created” this watch!”

I would remark, "This 'thing' - whatever it is - is apparently incapable of reproducing!"

(Grant me that I am permitted to take the watch into a lab and observe it long enough - to place it on growth media, etc. - to come to this conclusion.)

The mere fact that it cannot reproduce itself - that it thus lacks one of the basic properties or earmarks of life - is already a strong indication that it is a mere artifact, i.e., that it was MADE.

Whereas: A living organism is far more likely to be the product of countless generations of evolution over billions of years.

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