In the United States, starting in the 1960s, creationists revived versions of the argument to dispute the concepts of evolution and natural selection, and there was renewed interest in the watchmaker argument.
No caso dos Estados Unidos, a partir da década de 1960, os creacionistas revitalizaron versións do argumento para discutir así os conceptos de evolución e selección natural, e hobo un renovado interese no argumento do reloxeiro.