Natural Teleology: More Thomas Nagel (The limitations of science)

by David Turell , Saturday, February 02, 2013, 00:47 (4311 days ago) @ dhw


>dhw: You say twice that Nagel "offers no answers". ...... I think it's to Nagel's credit that he recognizes the gaps in the materialist argument and is searching for a different route that will fill those gaps without creating others (as is the case with any form of God), and without resorting to faith. Even if he does "smell" like dhw and offers no answers, don't hold it against him!-No, I do him credit for trying, and for stopping when he can go no further. but he has certainly put a nail in the darwin theory coffin. The subtitle of his book is: "Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False." That statement is very positive, and brings to mind Paul Davies who says we have to add information, but he also has no idea where that info comes from. -IT MUST COME FROM SOMEWHERE. Tell me it arises de novo. It still boils down to the consideration that the information has a first cause. Only an intellect can create information.