Tag: teleology
Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Beings?
Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view.
How I “Discovered” Alfred Russel Wallace
I certainly wouldn’t have recognized his full significance if I had not already been introduced to ID by reading Johnson, Behe, and Dembski.
First Life Must Have Had a Minimally Reliable Replication System — A Conundrum for Materialists
On a design-based view, it is not particularly surprising that the first life would be finely optimized to reduce copying errors.
For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology
Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes.
A Theoretical Biologist’s Mission Impossible: Banish Teleology While Retaining Meaning
The nonsense will cease eventually. But eventually is a long way off, if Barbieri’s dilemma is any guide.