Assumption of a designer necessary
Proper treatment of teleology—i.e. goal directedness—and natural systems demands the assumption of a designer with moral and aesthetic purposes in mind: and thereby the possibility of a critical philosophy that allows us to make value judgments.
Immanuel Kant, 1790.
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Assumption of a designer necessary
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