RE: Thoughts
October 3, 2017 at 3:37 pm
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2017 at 3:38 pm by Whateverist.)
(October 3, 2017 at 3:12 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(October 3, 2017 at 2:09 pm)Whateverist Wrote: So how important is evolution-no/creation-yes to your faith? If very, I don't think you're building on solid ground.
It's not very important to me but you probably already knew that. I just think both sides have moved beyond what the most recent science seems to be suggesting, i.e. that there is some unknown teleological component(s) to evolutionary processes. I think the ID advocates point out serious flaws in the neo-Darwin paradigm but I also don't see a clear indication of external agency directing natural selection. On the other hand, the neo-Darwinists are ignoring that the odds are so astronomically stacked against chance that the synthesis has become untenable.
Well I am unaware of any teleological components of evolutionary processes. I won't say there is an ironclad case to be made for ruling them out. But certainly the theory of evolution does not in any way depend on them and specifically is not based on them. It is rather a theory of change over time which accounts for an organism's increasingly improved fit to its environment in the absence of any such guiding hand.
