I don't see that at all. What I see mostly is circular reasoning: based on
current thinking, biologically there is an equilibrium, which is an end in itself and it drove evolution for millions of years to satisfy this presumed necessary "equilibrium"; in other words, the evolutionary process knows beforehand where it is going and when to stop.
A patent absurdity!
Since we have no facts with any certainty from 50 million years ago, nor any from 50 million into the future, anything that can be said, will be said!
As Mark Twain put it, "Such large returns of conjecture from such small investment in facts."
I don't see that at all. What I see mostly is circular reasoning: based on current thinking, biologically there is an equilibrium, which is an end in itself and it drove evolution for millions of years to satisfy this presumed necessary "equilibrium"; in other words, the evolutionary process knows beforehand where it is going and when to stop.Exactly. He is supposing that some sort of goal existed, which presupposes an intelligence capable of having goals. Of course people do that all the time. Since we're looking back, we tend to assume that the present world was a goal in view all along. Marx did the same thing, when he assumed that society was evolving toward something specific.