Our brains are wired for teleology (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, October 18, 2012, 17:52 (4420 days ago) @ dhw


> David, you are constantly complaining about money being lavished on useless research projects, and yet you are happy to support this gibberish. -My problem is reading too many reports and seeing scientists, in their articles, constantly referring to the 'design' in the finding and then backing off to clearly state that they feel the design (teleology) inference should be ignored. The report is not gibberish, even if it sounds that way. It is a clear observation of what I see constantly in my reading.-> Why didn't the researchers simply ask them whether they thought Nature was controlled by a divine purpose? What do you think would have been the majority answer?-Of course, nothing divine. But there are some of us who see it. I keep commenting on Alfred Russel Wallace, but no one here will respond about him. He took the same findings as Darwin, in fact gave Darwim much of the material Darwin used, and with the same brilliance, reached the opposite conclusion that evolution was not purposeless.