RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 27, 2019 at 7:33 pm
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2019 at 8:14 pm by Belacqua.)
(August 27, 2019 at 7:22 pm)Grandizer Wrote: It's a bit misleading though, because organs haven't evolved in order to do anything specific. They have evolved as a result of being advantageous (or being associated with advantageous traits) within a certain environment, thus favored by natural selection.
It's true that organs evolved because they were advantageous, with no intelligent design behind them. That doesn't mean that there is no teleology.
I think that maybe people assume that teleology, final causes, etc., always demand some kind of advanced planning, but that's not the way the term works, I don't think.
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Edited to add:
Maybe I shouldn't start this argument up again, as it might take us off topic.
The point I wanted to make earlier was just: little kids ask "what's it FOR?" without being indoctrinated.