Alfred Russell Wallace developed a theory of evolution about the same time as Darwin, but his model allowed for Aristotle"end causation", meaning goal-directed change.
To the Darwinian materialists of the time, this smacked of the hand of God controlling evolution, so Wallace's theory was generally ignored. But goal-directed change is another term for the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, which holds that energy tends to flow downhill. This means goal-directed or "end-caused" action, so that it makes no sense to say that evolution is merely the product of efficient causes, but -- if I may say so- is also guided by a larger hand, that of God or entropy. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
