Posted: Aug 30, 2013 3:39 pm
Mick wrote:Animavore wrote:Mick wrote:Animavore wrote:Thinking about it - final cause is falsifiable after all. All we need to do is show one instance of speciation. As, too, is the idea that no final cause exists, which would be shown wrong by all species crystallising and becoming fixed and immutable. So I take back what I said the previous page. I was wrong.
BTW - Cookie for guessing which theory has been falsified and therefore should be rejected
You don't know much about final causation, do you? Exactly how much have you read on it?
This much http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleology
Wikipedia? Wow. You are really informed.
I'm being facetious. Do you really expect me to go back over all the books I've read over the last fifteen years? You were clearly looking for an opportunity to be dismissive rather than engage.
As usual.