Erin,
Erin:
"that's really stretching it--teleology does not equal creationism.
Creationism is about there being a designer or creator.
Evolution is about a creative process.
You can tag teleology on to both but they will mean very different things."
It's true that teleology and creationism are not equivalent. For example,
teleology does not imply that the world is 10,000 years old.
However, teleology is the belief that there is intelligent design in
nature, and this is the central claim of creationism. I'm assuming
he's referring to creationism as the "opposing doctrine". What else would
it be?
The prevailing view of Darwinian evolutionists is that evolution is NOT
a creative process - it just seems that way in retrospect. If Pirsig
understood this he'd probably have a quarrel with evolutionists. For
more on this see:
http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/0106/0102.html
Glenn
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