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	Watchmaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A modern watchmaker is more likely to repair a wristwatch or a pocketwatch than to actually create a watch from scratch.
		Historically, in England, watchmakers would have to undergo a seven year apprenticeship and then join a guild, such as the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in London, before selling their first watch.
		William Paley and others used the watchmaker in his famous analogy to infer for the existence of God (the teleological argument).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Watchmaker (195 words)

	Watchmaker analogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The watchmaker analogy is often used as a teleological argument (argument from design) in support of the view that the universe (or features of it) are the product of a conscious designer or designers.
		The Watchmaker analogy was anticipated by Cicero in De natura deorum, (About the nature of the gods), ii.
		Critics of the watchmaker analogy, feel that an intelligent designer would not have created such poor designs unless the "designer" was inept or sadistic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Watchmaker_analogy (2398 words)

	II. The Blind Watchmaker Thesis
		Evolution of the blind watchmaker sort is necessarily a very gradual process, because the blind watchmaker has to be able to produce complex organs reliably, time after time, without resorting to magic.
		Darwinists get very indignant when their blind watchmaker is described as "mere chance." According to Dawkins, "natural selection is the very opposite of random." [6] That would be true if the effects of natural selection were predictable, but it is axiomatic in Darwinian circles that they are not predictable.
		Many instructive analogies exist: the watchmaker must take a simple tune and turn it into a symphony; he must be able to take a phrase and turn it into a book; he must be able to take a very basic word processing program and turn it into a powerful desktop publisher.
	www.apologetics.org /articles/founder2.html (4861 words)

	Aaron Lufkin Dennison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Upon a three year apprenticeship with James Cary, he went to work as a journeyman watchmaker in Boston in 1833.
		There he followed the advice of Tubal Hone, a fellow American watchmaker, and discovered inaccuracies in the workmanship and construction, of even the best of hand-made watches.
		He often visited the Springfield armory, predicting that the manufacture of watches would soon be reduced to as much system and perfection as the manufacture firearms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aaron_Lufkin_Dennison (361 words)

	Watchmaker Interview - Just Adventure +
		Every single thing we did for The Watchmaker was not made with the market in mind, we just wanted to make a beautiful and fascinating game, so the decision to have these kinds of characters was made because they really worked out for the story we had in mind.
		Watchmaker is very unique in that it is totally non-linear, yet your progress can be tracked when the game clock moves ahead by a 15-minute interval.
		There are many hidden surprises in The Watchmaker and it will take even the most experienced adventurers a long time to discover them all.
	www.justadventure.com /Interviews/Watchmaker/WatchmakerInterview.shtm (1058 words)

	Watchmaker - Just Adventure + Review
		Watchmaker was developed by Trecision, the same Italian company that gave us Ark of Time and Nightlong.
		Watchmaker is non-linear and as such requires a lot of searching and exploring of the castle grounds just to get a feel for the gaming area.
		For Watchmaker it is a problem involving retrieving a locket from the bottom of an indoor pool.
	www.justadventure.com /reviews/Watchmaker/Watchmaker.shtm (1110 words)

	The Watchmaker - from CDAccess.com
		The Watchmaker is a 3D real-time puzzle-based adventure game set in and around an ancient castle in present day Austria.
		Unlike many traditional adventure games, The Watchmaker frees you from the sensation of moving along a single given path, allowing the freedom to explore the world around you at your own pace.
		"Another of the fine characteristics of The Watchmaker is the free roaming of the castle that is allowed and even encouraged—except for initially locked areas.
	www.cdaccess.com /html/pc/watchmak.htm (1536 words)

	The Adrenaline Vault Review of The Watchmaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Unlike most virtual adventures, The Watchmaker is completely timed, but fortunately you do not feel extreme time pressure, nothing comparable to those sadistic adventures with tightly timed individual puzzles, as you progress to the end.
		The character depiction in The Watchmaker is comparable to that in action shooters such as Monolith's No One Lives Forever, way beneath the much higher adventure game standard because the faces and hands lack both detailed texturing and realistic movement.
		The overall atmosphere within The Watchmaker is a quite satisfying mix of mystery, adventure, and science fiction, and despite the very deliberate pacing you never lose sight of your ultimate goal of finding the pendulum.
	www.avault.com /reviews/print_review.asp?game=watchm (2001 words)

	CanadianGamer.ca - The Watchmaker Review
		Many adventure games follow a linear path, so The Watchmaker has one thing going for it right off the bat: being 3D, it can be fully explored and interacted with.
		The Watchmaker cuts right to the chase: there is not a huge menu with lots of options and tweaks.
		The Watchmaker doesn't boast anything new and, in fact, in some areas it is a step down from the norm that gamers see every day.
	www.canadiangamer.ca /Reviews/The_Watchmaker/page1.shtml (762 words)

	The Watchmaker Review - GamersHell.com
		In The Watchmaker you move around using the arrow keys, looking at objects is done by pressing the left mouse-button, while the right mouse button works as an action key.
		The downside is that The Watchmaker is not exactly the king on the technological side, and with unrealistic voice acting it doesn?t feel as intriguing as the awesome point-and-click adventure games from the beginning of the 90s.
		The Watchmaker tries to set the mood for a modern mystery, but fails to scare and make me laugh, so I would say that this is a title you should only go for if solving puzzles is your favorite pastime, or if you?re simply a big fan of the genre.
	www.gamershell.com /reviews_TheWatchmakerReview.shtml (1010 words)

	Game Over Online Magazine - The Watchmaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The developers never explain what leyline energy is supposed to be, the motivations of the people trying to use the clock remain cloudy, and the threat to humanity ends up being somewhat less than cataclysmic.
		Otherwise, The Watchmaker’s puzzles are well thought out, but they require some patience, and so The Watchmaker is a better game if you can kick it around for a week rather than trying to blow through it in a weekend.
		The Watchmaker doesn’t look nearly as good as other graphical adventures, and things only get worse when you switch to the first person perspective (since it zooms in the view).
	www.game-over.net /reviews.php?id=733 (806 words)

	The Watchmaker - Windows
		The Watchmaker was the most promising adventure title since The Longest Journey.
		Thus, when I finally got The Watchmaker, I was eagerly expecting a full weekend of play, possibly an all-nighter.
		The presentation, such as graphics and sound should force the player to take "one more thing before quitting for the night" for hours to come, and before the player knows, the night is half over.
	www.netjak.com /Reviews/windows/watch.htm (1918 words)

	Watchmaker Walkthrough
		The scene continued showing the death of the Watchmaker by removing his heart and the heart burned.
		It is the letter of the Watchmaker to the rest of the immortals.
		The old records are of those immortals that need to be intervened with immediately as noted by the Watchmaker.
	www.gameboomers.com /wtcheats/pcWw/Watchmaker.htm (8524 words)

	The Wargamer - PC Game Review: The Watchmaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The basic plotline behind The Watchmaker is that an experimental machine has been stolen by a shady international consortium.
		The Stones may have been right when they initially sang their classic tune, but in The Watchmaker time is most certainly not on the player's side.
		The Watchmaker may not be a major corporate release, but the poor graphics just remind me of that fact over and over (and over) again.
	www.wargamer.com /reviews/the_watchmaker (826 words)

	Creator or Blind Watchmaker?(First Things): Johnson, Phillip
		He wrote The Blind Watchmaker to convince the public of something that Darwinists take for granted: namely, that the appearance of purposeful design in biology is misleading, because all living organisms, including ourselves, are the products of a natural evolutionary process employing random variation and natural selection.
		The blind watchmaker hypothesis is therefore merely a way of stating the commitment of "science" to naturalism, and as such the existence of a blind watchmaker is a logical necessity.
		That a competent blind watchmaker doesn't exist at all is not a logical possibility.
	www.arn.org /docs/johnson/cre_bw98.htm (5129 words)

	Dawkins, Richard - The Blind Watchmaker : Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design book review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins delves into the mechanism of cumulative natural selection--unlike Tim Berra's Evolution and the Myth of Creationism which goes into many of the other scientific areas involved in organic evolution such as paleontology.
		The watchmaker argument is the basis from which Dawkins begins.
		The Blind Watchmaker is the type of book that you can explore several times and still pull additional useful information out of on the second and third reads that you missed the first time through.
	www.2think.org /tbw.shtml (554 words)

	Apologia Atheos: The Watchmaker argument refuted
		A true watchmaker has foresight: he designs his cogs and springs, and plans their interconnections, with a future porpose in his mind's eye.
		The watchmaker is a false analogy because it assumes that because two objects share one common quality, they must have another quality in common.
		The watchmaker argument is not a proof, it is an analogy.
	www.update.uu.se /~fbendz/nogod/watchmak.htm (1222 words)

	Watchmaker Publishing - Cover Design, Printing Service, Typesetting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		And we will work with the author/publisher regarding minor changes in layout of which there are typically no additional charges.
		Reprinting with Watchmaker is quick—10/12 business days—and inexpensive, with no minimum order required.
		Whether for EBooks, POD or traditional run printing, complete conversion services* are available in over thirty languages for all types of books, manuals, sales catalogues, cookbooks, manuscripts, newsletters, medical and health related publications in all sizes and colors.
	www.watchmakerpublishing.com (165 words)

	The Religion of the Blind Watchmaker
		The whole point of the blind watchmaker thesis, however, is to establish what material processes can do in the absence of purpose and intelligence.
		The subject in controversy, however, is my argument that the blind watchmaker thesis is not supported by the evidence-i.e., that science does not know how life could have evolved to its present complexity and diversity without the participation of preexisting intelligence.
		From that standpoint the blind watchmaker thesis is true in principle by definition.
	www.leaderu.com /real/ri9203/watchmkr.html (2690 words)

	Audemars Piguet: Commitment to Service
		Watchmaker is a general term used to describe not only those that make watches, but also those that service and repair them.
		The Watchmakers of Switzerland Training and Educational Program (WOSTEP) is attempting to address the shortage of trained watchmakers worldwide while continuing to ensure that graduates of their schools receive the finest education possible and that they are held to the most rigorous of standards.
		A truly dedicated artisan, with a thick French accent and a passion for watchmaking and Audemars Piguet that is obvious and charming, he discussed with me the purpose and direction of the new service center and the day to day workings of the watchmakers and staff.
	www.thepurists.com /watch/features/8ohms/apclearwater (2221 words)

	Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker
		All appearances to the contrary, the only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics, albeit deployed in a very special way.
		A true watchmaker has foresight: he designs his cogs and springs, and plans their interconnections, with a future purpose in his mind's eye.
		Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind.
	www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk /dawkins/writings/blindwatchmaker.shtml (1219 words)

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		Gameplay: - Unlike many traditional adventure games, The Watchmaker frees the player from the sensation of moving along a single given path, and gives him the freedom to explore the world around him at his own pace.
		The Watchmaker's real-time 3Dengine allows the player to choose between dynamically moving cameras in a third person point-of-view, or a subjective first person in order to examine objects and environments in detail.
		The use of the keyboard to control the interface strengthens the feeling of being actually inside the game, and lets the player decide what to do and when to do it, whether to run or walk, whether to look under a table or, if he prefers, to examine the ceiling overhead.
	shop.game.net /ViewProduct.aspx?cat=10337&mid=274600 (471 words)

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		Darrel and Victoria learn that they must work together to investigate an Austrian castle (now the headquarters of a secretive organisation called the Multinational) for evidence that it may be the hiding place of a dangerous device that threatens human survival.
		The Watchmaker is a third-person perspective adventure where you direct the investigations of either Darrel or Victoria and all it takes is a simple keystroke to swap between the two characters.
		But in The Watchmaker that extra tactile dimension is added because it has retained the mouse, thus you can get a description or comment about the paintings or photos on the walls, or about items of furniture such as beds, desks, chairs and lamps.
	www.quandaryland.com /jsp/dispArticle.jsp?index=507 (1543 words)

	A for Adventure - The Watchmaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Watchmaker was published in different countries in their respective languages before it finally made its way to North America in English.
		Many centuries ago two dozen people were carefully chosen by a genius Watchmaker, who made them immortal with distinctive powers, with the help of science and the watchmaking techniques of the time.
		The Watchmaker wanted them to make the world a better place but instead these people were overcome by their lust, greed and hunger for power and became a threat to humanity.
	www.a-for-adventure.com /gamereview.php?id=253 (308 words)

	Dallas Willard ARTICLES
		Natural selection is, according to Dawkins, "the blind watchmaker" (5, 37)--"blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view" (21)--and this first stage of the argument is supposed to show that the watchmaker (really, the speciesmaker) is indeed blind.
		Certainly it is incumbent upon those who wish to explain the origin of the eye in terms of the conscious states and actions of a cosmic personality to say something more than "God did it," but even their failure to do this will not warrant us in accepting Dawkins' reasoning.
		When he writes books like The Blind Watchmaker he is just a naturalist metaphysician, trying to cozy up to the scientists and blend into their company in such a way that his true colors will not be noticed.
	www.dwillard.org /articles/artview.asp?artID=52 (6093 words)

	OR/MS Today - February 1998 - Oracle
		The OR/MS analyst handed the watchmaker his credit card and cheerfully inspected his newly cleaned and adjusted watch.
		He, too, liked the comfortable feel of the shop and the pleasant company of the watchmaker; but he also knew that the old fellow actually had made watches in Europe as a young man and knew more than just about anyone when it came to fixing them.
		When lobbyists come in on an issue, we expect them to bring in experts to support their position, and we just assume they hired experts who would support their views.
	www.lionhrtpub.com /orms/orms-2-98/oracle.html (927 words)

	MIT/IS Watchmakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Watchmakers are I/S staff developers who attended MIT as students while working for Information Systems or Project Athena.
		In the book Watchmakers are small rat like creatures on a alien world which have a number of interesting qualities:
		In fact, every constructed physical object on their planet was made by watchmakers.
	web.mit.edu /teamhtml/Athena/watchmakers (222 words)

	The Watchmaker's Knife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I find the spring bar tool on the watchmaker's knife a lot easier to use then the one on the spring bar tool 6110.
		The watchmaker's knife tool handle is thinner and has a better grip then the 6110 plus the fork of the knife's tools is sharper too.
		You can still carry your watchmaker's knife if you have carry-on luggage only, but you will have to check-in the knife.
	www.pmwf.com /Watches/WatchTools/BraceletSizingTools/WatchmakerKnife.htm (165 words)

	Watchmaker's Tools for Collectors
		This is the tool professional watchmakers use when they change watch straps and buckles or deployant clasps.
		After I spent an hour and a half driving to my watchmaker's to get a hole punched in a watch straps I realized it might be a good idea to have one of these.
		This is the classic must-have tool for watchmakers, and any collector wanting to open a snap-back case watch.
	www.mywatchmaker.net /watchmakertools.htm (1102 words)

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