The real alternative to design (Evolution)

by George Jelliss , Crewe, Monday, March 10, 2008, 11:48 (6100 days ago) @ David Turell

David Turell takes my statement: "In writing the above I have become more conscious of how difficult it is to write about evolution without using terminology that implies design and intention and purpose and so on behind the natural processes." and follows it with: "I agree completely. Biologic machines sure look designed and purposeful." But this was not what I meant at all, as I'm sure he knows. - All I am saying is that it is difficult to avoid anthropomorphism in describing nature. It is difficult to find language that is purely objective. We haven't yet developed the appropriate vocabulary, at least for communicating the ideas in a manner understandable to the general populace. Perhaps biologists have done so in their technical journals.