When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.

Summary

This quote expresses skepticism towards the concept of spontaneous or unguided creation. The comparison of a load of bricks forming a house and various components organizing themselves into a watch accentuates the lack of plausibility in believing that the vast complexity and harmony in the universe could occur without an intelligent force behind it. The quote suggests that until there is evidence to support such a notion or until it becomes conceivable, some individuals will find it difficult to accept the idea of a creation without a guiding intelligence.

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