philosophy of science: meaning and functions (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, September 16, 2018, 18:27 (2046 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

TONY: Just a thought, but what seems to be missing in this thought process is 'purpose'. Evolution requires no purpose, and offers no meaning. I think something deep in humanity rejects this purposeless idea of existence. Yet we do not extend the idea of purpose beyond our own existence to say, what is the purpose of everything, not just our purpose. We can recognize the need for a designer to account for the complexity, but forget that designers do not design without purpose.

DHW: That is why I shifted the discussion to this thread. You wanted to talk about purpose, and now that we are talking about purpose, you want to talk about design!

Tony: Design and purpose go hand in hand, particularly when you are talking about the purposes of the designer.

As I've observed, they must go hand in hand. There are only chance or design, and chance never has purpose.