73  Teleology and Orderliness
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The infinite number of cosmic and biological structures which we can observe today allegedly developed by pure chance according to the opinion of many scientists. This dogma contradicts goal-directedness (teleology) and orderliness which are recognizable in all of nature. If nature actually had developed by purely chance processes, teleology should not be recognizable.


Most evolution advocates attempt to explain the origin of life using matterl and natural laws alone. According to this concept, teleology should not exist in nature. In this context, the political scientist and biologist Robert Wesson recognized: “The only question where modern authors have a unanimous opinion is that adaptation (through mutation/selection) is not teleological” (1).

This unanimity can be explained from the common materialistic approach of scientists. But how can the evolutionist Aldous Huxley describe evolution as a “determined (!) chronologically irreversible process” (2) when the purposefulness is specifically refuted.

The Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod had to admit that “the cornerstone of the scientific method is the postulate of the objectivity of nature […] This postulate of objectivity is essential for science [...] Particularly objectivity obliges us to recognize the teleonomic character of life, to admit that it follows a plan in its structure and performances. The central problem of biology is this contradiction itself” (3).

This contradiction cannot be avoided with a materialistic ideology. The postulate of complete purposelessness can hardly be sustained by consistent thought on the concrete reality of nature (4).


Vestiges of God in Creation?(5)

In his book "Spuren Gottes in der Schöpfung“ Reinhard Junker supplies a profound description and detailed analysis of the criticism of the principle ideas of the intelligent design movement. He approaches the subject of teleology in biology from the perspectives of scientific theory, science and theology, whereby the incapability of previous evolutional models to explain this phenomenon are elaborated concisely.


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References:

(1) Robert Wesson, Beyond Natural Selection, Cambridge/Mass. 1991, German Edition: Die unberechenbare Ordnung, Artemis & Winkler, München, 1993, P. 31.
(2) Johannes Grün, Die Schöpfung, ein göttlicher Plan, P. 509.
(3) Jacques Monod, Le Hasard et la Nécessité, Paris, 1970, P. 37f. (German edition: Zufall und Notwendigkeit, München, 1971).
(4) Phillip E. Johnson, Darwin im Kreuzverhör, CLV Bielefeld, 2003, P. 145.
(5) Reinhard Junker, Spuren Gottes in der Schöpfung? Eine kritische Analyse von Design-Argumenten in der Biologie, Holzgerlingen, 2009.
 
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