BIOLOGICAL TELEOLOGY RECITATIVE

Written for: Allen MacNeill, Cornell University

Audio produced by: Saul Aaron Appelbaum, Cornell University

2006

We see two ontologies screening biology for degrees of teleology agreeing on what seems to be a logical tautology: pre-existing purpose is design. In each other these terms are defined. But media won’t hesitate when mediating the debate necessitates conflating the ideas on both sides with stereotypes to create and divide opponents polarized, to glamorize the fight between fated perfection and natural selection, commercial press getting capital-ized, letting misguidance standardize. Collecting on amplifying distress over genetics forgets the most noble goals of saving information and lets exaggeration burlesque and aggravation preside. With public outrage cohorts unify, while we’re denied the luxury of academic discourse with E.B. challenging I.D. as a matter of course. So when the two use same facts similarities dissipate but when their logic won’t overlap it’s skewed to make integrate. Even by the most prominent vocal of each movement are truths reduced to common units of derelict rhetoric to the extent that intra-breaks and inter-sames of perspective get neglected. Get rejected. The whole argument’s defective when we’re so inclined to watch debates between two sides we fail to see, we try to hide, the incongruencies in fluency due to misalignment in describing things. Finding discrepancies between same findings found separately, while hiding discrepancies between bio and philo, bringing confab to pyro. Aiding conflagrations by upbraiding congregations no matter denomination want sensation, observation. With half-telling best-selling ranting pedantics and news tycoons slanting semantics. Arguing tiredly same facts selectively said back with ire we hardly advance our knowledge of the ologies, misunderstand that the facts are dead static conflicted with logical formats unmatched.

Anyway, mindlessly timeless if spitefully, contentions rise, come better known, reiterate with metaphysics stressed and blinding the ideas of scientific findings stymied when it’s fine for theologians known to bring gods to scientific debates to implicitly state that plans are preceded by the things they make and to place effects before causes because it’s sufficiently cogent for theologians to make the case at church podiums that god made causality malleable, and convince young earth creationists with worth-based information lists that valuing morality means shallowly evaluating the material implications of nature’s ways of saving information and using metaphysical mal-equivalents of empirical arguments to oppose evolution with god’s will’s finality and uphold- some dare say "invalidly"- conclusions of views espoused through allegories in bible stories within a different logical category than scientific libraries and laboratories, making an objective answer to the question of ancestors more a matter of opinion than of fact, and dilution of the inconclusive nature of conclusions on both sides keeps entertainingness intact.  

Aristotles 4 causes

Definition of biological teleology

What it means when logical categories are mismatched

How nature saving information is referring to DNA and genes as data

Aristotelian

Material

Formal – pattern or form, often mathematical

Efficient – the thing that starts or stops the change

Aristotle says that chance events don’t have a final cause

If a formula is not a tautology or a contradiction, it’s logically contingent

Aristotle’s final cause, a purpose

Scientific method, cause and effect, subjectivity in scie

nce – NO!