Our brains are wired for teleology (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, October 20, 2012, 19:02 (4394 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Read a little about Wallace in Wikipedia. You will be surprised. He worked much longer and further in the field and fed Darwin much material to digest.-Thank you for pushing me. What an extraordinary and admirable man, with interests and values that are still deeply relevant to us today. It was pleasing to see that Darwin went out of his way to help him, even when they had disagreements. These were two highly sensitive and considerate men. As for those disagreements, including the important one of teleology and anthropocentrism, when you have two such intellectual giants with opposite views, I can only repeat that between them they create an excellent case for agnosticism.