Anonymous
10/13/2025, 2:47:24 PM
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>>82786406
Didn't know jk rowling subscribed to natural teleology. I personally don't think it makes sense to refer to things occurring in nature as having purpose, like she does by implying that egg-producing equipment can be "faulty", meaning it doesn't fulfill what its purpose is. Purpose implies that a thing fulfills some intended function, which just doesn't make sense when it comes to things that weren't created by a conscious agent, but through e.g. running the simulation of natural selection. Even if you grant that there is a conscious creator of the universe, to say a naturally occurring phenomenon has a specific purpose would require you to know the intention behind the creation. For example it's possible that the purpose of a leaf was to look pretty, and the fact it enables photosynthesis was an unintended side effect. Or that the purpose of a leaf was to do something else, but the creator messed up and ended up with something unintended. But I don't subscribe to this idea of the creator of nature anyway. To me things in nature just "are". There is no "should" to the way they are.
Didn't know jk rowling subscribed to natural teleology. I personally don't think it makes sense to refer to things occurring in nature as having purpose, like she does by implying that egg-producing equipment can be "faulty", meaning it doesn't fulfill what its purpose is. Purpose implies that a thing fulfills some intended function, which just doesn't make sense when it comes to things that weren't created by a conscious agent, but through e.g. running the simulation of natural selection. Even if you grant that there is a conscious creator of the universe, to say a naturally occurring phenomenon has a specific purpose would require you to know the intention behind the creation. For example it's possible that the purpose of a leaf was to look pretty, and the fact it enables photosynthesis was an unintended side effect. Or that the purpose of a leaf was to do something else, but the creator messed up and ended up with something unintended. But I don't subscribe to this idea of the creator of nature anyway. To me things in nature just "are". There is no "should" to the way they are.