Tag: teleology
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.
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.