To: unspun
"Purpose" doesn't seem to be realted to "orientation" at all. "Purpose" generally is realted to "aims" and "goals" which have nothing to do with evolutionary theory. Evolutionary theory has no teleology.
1,191 posted on
03/01/2003 9:49:09 PM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Doctor Stochastic
Fine, good doctor. I grant you your assertion for purposes of this discussion. (Of course, the naturalist philosophy unnecessarily behind most of evolution theorists work blocks out questions of ultimate purpose.) I'm using the word purpose as in this sentence, "The purpose of having eyes is to see." The word can be used that way. It really can. I just did. See?
1,193 posted on
03/01/2003 9:56:41 PM PST by
unspun
(The most terrorized place in America is a mother's womb.)
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