Tag: teleology
Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism
Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.”
Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not?
James G. Lennox quotes from an 1862 essay, where Darwin wrote that “the final cause of all this mimicry” among butterflies is evading predation.
Alfred Wallace’s Views Hold Up Well Today — Unlike Those of His Friendly Rival Charles Darwin
Wallace’s stance is remarkable in foreshadowing modern intelligent design theory.
Oxford Biologist Denis Noble: “The Fact Is that I Think Neo-Darwinism Is Dead”
I respect Denis Noble and in disagreeing with him I do not mean to slight his deep insights into how biology works.
Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times
No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them.