Add to ORKGWhile it may remain difficult for the student of modernity to understand the weight of Paley’s teleological arguments for nineteenth century British scientists, the idea of a design in nature and the implication of a designer nevertheless provided lasting explanatory power amongst competing hypotheses until up to Darwin. As Richard Dawkins points out, it was reasonable for English scientists to maintain telic 'causes' in the explanation of biological origins until the observations of Paley were ascribed to a natural mechanism as evidenced by Charles Darwin. When viewed in the light of contemporary debates on the possibility of evolution by natural selection in opposition to purposeful intervention, it is useful, then, to understand clearly ...
The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of h...
Charles Darwin has achieved both notoriety and fame for his evolutionary ideas encapsulated principa...
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was at the center of w...
While it may remain difficult for the student of modernity to understand the weight of Paley’s teleo...
Williams argued that darwin replaced teleology by natural selection. This article argues that this i...
Paley's work of 1802 was hugely influential and still controversial, as we see a resurgence of inter...
William Paley’s Natural Theology has experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent decades with t...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the nature of the Design Argument both historically and phi...
Contains fulltext : reopened.pdf ( ) (Open Access)Darwinian explanations for teleo...
William Paley ( Natural Theology , 1802) developed the argument-from-design. The complex structure o...
For nearly one-and-a-half centuries, biologists interested in evolution have been haunted by the que...
Evolutionary theory in the late nineteenth century was marked by controversy over the way in which D...
There is a 'Neo-Paleyan' tradition in British evolutionary theorising, which began with Darwin and c...
We argue that teleological thinking plays a central role in biology and, more specifically, in theor...
has followed over the past century and a half. In that work Darwin was largely concerned with establ...
The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of h...
Charles Darwin has achieved both notoriety and fame for his evolutionary ideas encapsulated principa...
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was at the center of w...
While it may remain difficult for the student of modernity to understand the weight of Paley’s teleo...
Williams argued that darwin replaced teleology by natural selection. This article argues that this i...
Paley's work of 1802 was hugely influential and still controversial, as we see a resurgence of inter...
William Paley’s Natural Theology has experienced a resurgence in popularity in recent decades with t...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the nature of the Design Argument both historically and phi...
Contains fulltext : reopened.pdf ( ) (Open Access)Darwinian explanations for teleo...
William Paley ( Natural Theology , 1802) developed the argument-from-design. The complex structure o...
For nearly one-and-a-half centuries, biologists interested in evolution have been haunted by the que...
Evolutionary theory in the late nineteenth century was marked by controversy over the way in which D...
There is a 'Neo-Paleyan' tradition in British evolutionary theorising, which began with Darwin and c...
We argue that teleological thinking plays a central role in biology and, more specifically, in theor...
has followed over the past century and a half. In that work Darwin was largely concerned with establ...
The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of h...
Charles Darwin has achieved both notoriety and fame for his evolutionary ideas encapsulated principa...
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was at the center of w...