Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
No, science can say how something happens, but struggles with the question of why. Nothing to do with abiogenesis, Boris, but about ascribing the purpose of evolution to blind chance.
No, science can say how something happens, but struggles with the question of why. Nothing to do with abiogenesis, Boris, but about ascribing the purpose of evolution to blind chance.
But how could a "purpose" be ascribed to "blind chance," anyway? Studying evolution--or any scientific theory--doesn't deal with "purposes." But if a process in science appears to be unguided by any intelligent mechanism, which is the case for evolution, then how is it outside the realm of science to note this observation?
Would you claim that meteorologists are stepping outside the realm of science to describe the "why" of tornados and hurricanes? I'm sure a few folks might believe an invisible being like Thor is guiding each storm across the earth...but their objections to such storms being "random" are hardly of any concern to science.
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