Reddit reviews Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God

Yes, I suppose that would have to be Ne. It is funny that you should happen to make these posts today. I just started reading Anarchy Evolution by Greg Graffin today. He discusses both Extrinsic and Intrinsic Teleology, as Graffin is a pure Naturalist and a evolutionary biologist, as well as the singer of Bad Religion. He has an answer for the intrinsic teleology portion as it relates to Darwin. Evolution has over-emphasized the doctrine of natural selection and it doesn't hold up to scrutiny as the efficient, perfecting, survival of the fittest, struggle for existence process that it is supposed to be. Rather, there is a good deal of chance, randomness, and tendency for unsustainable over-abundance instead of what could be considered a goal for a species, which could just as easily be used as a justification for the belief in intelligent design as it could for a Darwinian perspective.

Now I suppose that I could interpret the coincidence that during the same day, you post this here and I also read a book directly related to the subject, which isn't directly related to my usual typological studies to be some sort of extrinsic teleology, but I think that it would more properly be considered a synchronicitous event, or a meaningful coincidence. This isn't as weird or unusual as some might think. Synchronicity happens all the time and I think it is worthwhile to separate the two concepts. Synchronicity is acausal. Both of us reading the same sort of material at the same time can be meaningful, but doesn't "mean anything" like it was causally preordained, that would be extrinsic teleology and thus probably a fallacy. Von Franz gives an example of how synchronicity works. She says that if she wipes her nose and a moment later sees an airplane fall from the sky, she is not likely to see a connection between the two random events. However, if she goes to the dress shop to buy a blue dress and for some reason ends up buying a black dress and later that day learns that her relative died, that would seem meaningful, but it would be just as random. The error would be to suppose that buying the black dress caused the death.