PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intelligent Design, Bivalve Shell, Materialism

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHL 101
• Professor: Herman

Document Summary

Darwin himself was early on in his career quite impressed by william. However, in time, darwin changed his mind as he developed his new theory. Darwin has this to say about paley and his argument in his autobiographies (published in 1876): "the old argument of design in nature, as given by paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer argue that, for instance, the beautiful hinge of a bivalve shell must have been made by an intelligent being, like the hinge of a door by a man. There seems to be no more design in variability of organic beings and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows. " Darwin wrote the following in a letter written the year after he published the.