Cyclamen-coum Type post Author Stephen J. Iacoboni Date December 9, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , biology, complementarity, consciousness, David Klinghoffer, dispositionalism, Edward Feser, emergence, Etienne Gilson, final causality, Günter Bechly, Lex Fridman, mathematics, metaphysics, Michael Levin, MIT Press, naturalism, necessity, ontology, origin of life, Peter Corning, Plato's Revenge, purpose, Richard Sternberg, science of purpose, specified irreducible complexity, teleology, teleonomy, telos, Thomism, Tufts University Science, Purpose, and Michael Levin: The Discussion Evolves Stephen J. Iacoboni December 9, 2025 Evolution, Intelligent Design 5 A leading spiritually agnostic (at least, that is my impression) biology researcher, Michael Levin at Tufts, is himself a proponent of teleology in nature. Read More ›
cat-paws-with-claws-on-white-background-stockpack-adobe-stoc-250663393-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Stephen J. Iacoboni Date November 17, 2025 CategoriesEngineeringIntelligent Design Tagged , Aristotelianism, Aristotle, artifacts, artwork, axes, biology, causality, chairs, DNA, E.O. Wilson, emergence, enzymes, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, final causality, Francis Bacon, Immanuel Kant, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jacques Monod, Judeo-Christian tradition, Leonard Susskind, Life Itself, Ludwig Wittgenstein, machines, mechanics, Michael Behe, Neo-Darwinism, purpose, René Descartes, Robert Rosen, rockets, science of purpose, St. Thomas Aquinas, Stephen Hawking, structure-function relationship, telos, Theodosius Dobzhansky, tools, William Dembski, windmills What Is the Originating Source of Design in Organisms? Stephen J. Iacoboni November 17, 2025 Engineering, Intelligent Design 9 The genesis of structure-function relationships in human artifacts is as well understood as are their mechanics. Read More ›
