Other Points of Contention

I have been referring to Evolvement as a 'paradigm' to indicate that more than one issue is in dispute. For sure, the title 'Origin of the Species' has determined the main question hitherto, but there is a lot more at stake. The Humpty Dumpty paradigm establishes not merely a thesis regarding origins, but also one regarding termini, starting with the simple point that there are termini. In other words, it is a closed system, at both ends, whereas, Evolvement is intrinsically open. Hence, while contemporary theorists continue the debate between Creationism and Evolutionism, they hardly seem to notice what writers of fiction have--that an open system presents a serious challenge to that Theology elsewhere. That is, a doctrine that is crucial to that Theology is that humanity is the steward of the natural world. But if the Evolutionary theory is correct, the emergence of natural creatures that are superior to humans is possible, in which case humanity would no longer qualify as the crown of creation. Perhaps Darwin, etc. believed that Survival would serve as a stage of closure, but, if so, it fails to do so, since, as I have shown previously, Survival is only a special case of Evolvement. Systematic closedness is to be found in not only this Theological tradition--there is teleology to be found in Aristotle, as well as in the messianisms of both Hegel and Marx. And, as I have suggested previously, the paradigms are applicable to individual humans, and not merely to the race. Hence, according to Evolvement, Ethics concerns something other than a recovery of something lost, and self-actualization Psychological theories are similarly misguided. Finally, it is usually hardly noticed that Newton was for the most part a theologian, and, so, that his banishment of teleology from Physics was actually a relocation of it in the supernatural realm. So, as I have argued, since the Final Cause is a species of Formal Cause, returning teleology to nature will facilitate the development of a Formaterial theory of Physics.