From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Aug 16 2004 - 17:02:34 BST
MSH, Ham, Anthony, All:
msh says
> Ok. Now I understand why you think the MOQ is incomplete. You want it to
> make room for "purpose" or "the divine plan." It's always been a mystery
> to me how it is that just because people see purpose in their daily lives
> (or rather create purpose for themselves) they are driven to conclude that
> life itself must have a purpose. This is just childishly poor
> anthropomorphic reasoning, IMO. To me, one of the great strengths of the
> MOQ's evolutionary theory is its denial that there is a teleological "plan"
> to life.
The MOQ doesn't "deny" teleological purpose to life or evolution.
"There is no quarrel whatsoever between the Metaphysics of Quality and the
Darwinian Theory of Evolution. Neither is there a quarrel between the
Metaphysics of Quality and the "teleological" theories which insist that
life has some purpose. What the Metaphysics of Quality has done is unite
these opposed doctrines within a larger metaphysical structure that
accommodates both of them without contradiction." (Lila, 11)
Life exhibits purpose everyday in its struggle to survive.
Platt
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