LoneShaman
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As for Haldane's comment, perhaps it is a bit dated. Today the mistress of teleology is considered to be just one of the boys. Her presence is everywhere but never acknowledged. :) However she is very useful.
Biology cannot avoid using teleological language to describe function. As was stated in the last video I posted. Systems biology does better research and makes more discoveries by assuming teleology even if it is not believed. It is always better to assume function.
A good case in point is junk DNA. The field was set back decades on the Darwinian assumption that the majority of the genome was mere junk accumulated through the assumed random and haphazard process of random mutation. No one really wanted to bother with studying useless junk.
The encode project confirmed the teleological / design prediction that it is not so.
No one denies that life appears designed. Microbiology shows the cell operates by apparent nano machines built and operated by software like code that "appears" designed to do so.
The fallback is that this design is without a designer and it is just an illusion. Darwinism seemed to have confirmed this for a very long time. Thanks to microbiology Darwinism is in tatters and this illusion has never been justified as being an illusion.
Biology cannot avoid using teleological language to describe function. As was stated in the last video I posted. Systems biology does better research and makes more discoveries by assuming teleology even if it is not believed. It is always better to assume function.
A good case in point is junk DNA. The field was set back decades on the Darwinian assumption that the majority of the genome was mere junk accumulated through the assumed random and haphazard process of random mutation. No one really wanted to bother with studying useless junk.
The encode project confirmed the teleological / design prediction that it is not so.
No one denies that life appears designed. Microbiology shows the cell operates by apparent nano machines built and operated by software like code that "appears" designed to do so.
The fallback is that this design is without a designer and it is just an illusion. Darwinism seemed to have confirmed this for a very long time. Thanks to microbiology Darwinism is in tatters and this illusion has never been justified as being an illusion.