her uncle didnt share with her any of the details of his plan , but he did carefully monitor what she was studying in biology , and frequently through the year he had asked her to read various papers on the subject of intelligent design by writers such as michael j. behe and william a. demski , as well as an eighteenth-century english thinker , william paley , who was the first one to use the analogy of a watchthat if a person found such a complex and ingenious device he would have to conclude that behind the marvelous device was a watchmaker .