Tag: teleology
How Modern Physics Reveals Purpose in the Universe
Scientists agree that our universe is finely tuned for the existence of life. But is the fine-tuning a happy accident or the result of foresight?
On the BBC, a New Openness to Teleology in Biology?
Dr. Richard Buggs is a plant biologist and professor of evolutionary genomics at Queen Mary, University of London.
Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework
Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature.
On the Irreducible Complexity of Sperm Cells
Human reproduction is perhaps the quintessential example of teleology in biology.
Darwinian Natural Selection: A Covert Theology of Nature?
Those who interpreted the essence of Darwinism as being an explanation of evolution in (covertly) theistic terms appear to have had a point.