Trilobite eyes (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 30, 2013, 21:39 (4047 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: "Although the word has its legitimate uses, you will not find me speaking of design, simply because — as I've made abundantly clear in previous articles — organisms cannot be understood as having been designed, machine-like, whether by an engineer-God or a Blind Watchmaker elevated to god-like status. If organisms participate in a higher life, it is a participation that works from within — at a deep level the ancients recognized as that of the logos informing all things. It is a sharing of the springs of life and being, not a mere receptivity to some sort of external mechanical tinkering modeled anthropocentrically on human engineering."-This is the same cop out Nagel uses. There is a nebulous third way ,a 'logos' at the center of life that is just there all by itself, out of nowhere. What is that 'logos that informs all things' and where did it come from? Again out of thin air, an uncaused cause? Again horse manure. A theory that stops short of any conclusion, after presenting all that reasonable logic and coming to the edge of the precipice. A third way or no way!