RE: The absurd need for logical proofs for God
December 1, 2020 at 11:05 pm
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2020 at 11:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'm not sure I understand the question, what's teleological about the evolutionary connection to dna?
It has a purpose, and can be explained by or by reference to that purpose. Teleology is an explanation for a thing by the purpose it serves rather than the cause by which it may arise. A natural teleology explains things by the natural purpose they serve - and design is no exception.
Nor, for that matter, are our own designs. They're conceptually and qualitatively equivalent. We're not designing stuff, ourselves, some non natural non biological way. If we can do teleology, that's evolutionary biology doing teleology. The connection to ourselves is explicit. Evolutionary biology conferred an ability to us that the processes which create rocks simply don't confer to them. Or, at least..not that we know of..yet. Always crossing my fingers that the first alien who pops in and asks to see our leader seems, for all the world, like a lifeless rock to us.
It has a purpose, and can be explained by or by reference to that purpose. Teleology is an explanation for a thing by the purpose it serves rather than the cause by which it may arise. A natural teleology explains things by the natural purpose they serve - and design is no exception.
Nor, for that matter, are our own designs. They're conceptually and qualitatively equivalent. We're not designing stuff, ourselves, some non natural non biological way. If we can do teleology, that's evolutionary biology doing teleology. The connection to ourselves is explicit. Evolutionary biology conferred an ability to us that the processes which create rocks simply don't confer to them. Or, at least..not that we know of..yet. Always crossing my fingers that the first alien who pops in and asks to see our leader seems, for all the world, like a lifeless rock to us.
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