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Updated: May 11, 2025
On the other hand, we have clearly seen that this Paleyerian system of natural theology has been effectually demolished by the scientific theory of natural selection the fundamental axiom of the former having been shown by the latter to be scientifically untrue. Hence the term "scientific teleology" is without question applicable to the Paleyerian system.
But, looking to the "present state of our knowledge," this is merely to change the teleological argument from its gross Paleyerian form, into the argument from the ubiquitous operation of general laws. And we saw that this transformation is now a rational necessity.
In a word, it is the fact and not the method of Evolution which is subversive of Teleology in its Paleyerian form.
That the Paleyerian form of the argument did so is manifest, first because this argument itself treats the problem of Theism as a problem that is susceptible of scientific demonstration, and next because we have seen that the advance of science has proved this argument susceptible of scientific refutation.
Hence it is evident that so long as we remain ignorant of the element essential to the argument from design in its Paleyerian form viz., knowledge or presumption of the relations subsisting between an hypothetical Deity and his creation so long must that argument remain, not only unassignably weak, but incapable of being strengthened by any number of examples similar in kind.
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