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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

According to viewpoint #1, saying that life evolved according to non-telic processes is just as vacuous as stating that life evolved from telic processes unless you can provide evidence for atelic evolution which also eliminates telic evolution.

A Modest Proposal (By a Somewhat Modest Engineer) 2009

Yet you cannot even cite an atelic pathway that would produce a code.

Beckwith on ID 2008

It is your side which assumes an atelic process and has for years.

Beckwith on ID 2008

Your own argument that everything in evolution is a secondary effect of an intelligent designed genetic code is hardly different from the very stupid (but common in ID circles) argument that computer simulations of evolutionary processes cannot be used as arguments for atelic processes because the computer programs were designed by intelligent beings.

Beckwith on ID 2008

It is your side which assumes an atelic process and has for years.

Beckwith on ID 2008

It's not some sort of zero-sum game between telic and atelic theories.

Beckwith on ID 2008

Using your logic, the wheels on my bicycle (if they could think) must necessarily conclude their spinning has no purpose, since the proximate cause is unconscious, atelic gears and chains.

Dark Matter Can Enlighten Minds 2008

It's not some sort of zero-sum game between telic and atelic theories.

Beckwith on ID 2008

Atelic activities are things we do without fanfare, purely for enjoyment’s sake, that have no endpoint.

No goals: why is it so hard to do something for enjoyment’s sake? Jenny Valentish 2021