ColibriColadeOroGolden-tailedSapphireHummingbirdB Type post Author Stephen J. Iacoboni Date June 30, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , "God of the gaps", agency, Aristotle, biologists, Charles Darwin, chemistry, complexity, emergence, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, flowers, function, G. H. Lewes, ime's Second Arrow, improbability, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, language, Life Itself, machines, materialists, mechanism, metaphysics, Michael Behe, Michael Polanyi, Michael Wong, natural selection, naturalism, organisms, physics, probability, purpose, RNA, Robert Hazen, Robert Rosen, science of purpose, Second Law of Thermodynamics, specified irreducible complexity, telos, Thomas Jefferson, Time's Second Arrow Misinterpreting Teleology: Another Attempt to Salvage Materialism Stephen J. Iacoboni June 30, 2026 Evolution, Intelligent Design 8 It’s a “self-evident truth,” as Thomas Jefferson, an early ID proponent himself, might have put it: organisms necessarily exist by virtue of purpose. Read More ›