Change occurs for a reason?
“I don’t see any evidence that change occurs for a reason. Do you have examples?”
*cough*Evolution*cough*
Evolutionary change does not occur for a reason, at least not when we use “reason” in the sense of a motive, which is what I (and, I believe, the person I was responding to) was doing. Evolutionary change has a cause, but cannot have a motive because it is not caused by any thinking thing.
on September 17, 2008 at 10:35 am
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Does this mean, then, evolution is caused by religious fundamentalists? They don’t think, do they?
– Jon