Over 8000 words, bitch. (Thats to my senior essay, not you.)
Okay, so there's no telos withing Darwinism. I'm really glad I
went about writing this paper excepting to find one, otherwise it would
have been really difficult to write. I would have said something
like, "There's no telos in modern biology as represented by Darwinism
because of this, and this, and this." Boring. It would have
been hard to fill up 25-odd pages by writing it that way. Not
that that topic couldn't fill up 25 pages, it just would have been more
difficult. Instead, I kept looking and looking for it. I
found a few possibilities - the population, the individual, the genetic
material, the survivial instinct...All of those fit the bill in one way
or another, but in other ways they're completely wrong. The
survival instinct perhaps comes closest. But it still fails,
because we cannot know exactly why creatures care to survive, which is
not an acceptable Aristotelian answer.
From my conclusion:
There must be a point where we as Darwinists stop asking "Why?" Perhaps there is no why. perhaps we must be comforted by the fact that we can explain phenomena very well up until a certain point. We stop, not because we are daunted, but because there are no longer any questions that can posssibly be answered through ovservable and scientific means.
So it doesn't really matter "Why." All that matters is that the phenomena occurs.
From my conclusion:
There must be a point where we as Darwinists stop asking "Why?" Perhaps there is no why. perhaps we must be comforted by the fact that we can explain phenomena very well up until a certain point. We stop, not because we are daunted, but because there are no longer any questions that can posssibly be answered through ovservable and scientific means.
So it doesn't really matter "Why." All that matters is that the phenomena occurs.