Tag: teleology
Teleophobia: Cassell on the Unreasonable Fear of Intelligent Design
What do biologists make of the apparently purposive nature of all these different kinds of complex programmed behaviors?
Ultra-Conserved Elements: New Paper, Same Old Results
UCEs are conserved structures that are not functionally constrained. Yet there is not so much as a hint of a problem for evolutionary theory.
New Studies Reveal the Exquisite Designs of the Nucleus and its DNA
You may have heard that all the DNA in your body, if stretched out, could reach to the Sun and back more than 70 times.
Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed
Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature.
The Return of Teleology to Biology
Biologists have faced a vexing dilemma since the philosophy of scientific materialism came to dominate Western thought.