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  • Joy: It would simply inform me that you come to the table with a faith-based belief-in atelic evolution, because ateleology is the theoretical a priori assumption.

    Bird Teeth 2008

  • It would simply inform me that you come to the table with a faith-based belief-in atelic evolution, because ateleology is the theoretical a priori assumption.

    Bird Teeth 2008

  • It's back to the drawing boards for those deluded into thinking ateleology is scientifically supported.

    Beckwith on ID 2008

  • The ateleology aspect of Darwin's theory centered around natural selection acting on random events.

    Beckwith on ID 2008

  • Joy: Yet reducing physical constructs to pieces-parts, and physical systems to chemical analysis doesn't empirically answer the open question of teleology or ateleology.

    Bird Teeth 2008

  • Mixing teleology and ateleology calls for the Spanish Inquisition!

    A Tetrahymena Puzzle 2008

  • Yet reducing physical constructs to pieces-parts, and physical systems to chemical analysis doesn't empirically answer the open question of teleology or ateleology.

    Bird Teeth 2008

  • Mixing teleology and ateleology calls for the Spanish Inquisition!

    A Tetrahymena Puzzle 2008

  • I'm afraid ateleology will continue to be excluded until an unintelligent, unguided evolutionary processes is observed.

    A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers 2007

  • Furthermore, 'millitant atheism', or, if you like, 'millitant ateleology' has been becoming much lounder recently, and many of us who oppose such an intellectual movement are quite happy to see it discussed here; a blog named 'telic thoughts' is obviously going to be interested in the antics and arguments of 'ateleologism'.

    Another "Pro-Science" Enthusiast at Work 2007

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