Debunking "The Blind Watchmaker" Evolutionary Theory with Aristotle
When it comes to bringing something into being, we must consider the form of the thing as well as whatever matter the thing is made of. Consider a tree. Photo by Johann Siemens on Unsplash Of course, science has names for trees, categorizing trees first as Dendrology, woody plants, into genera and we are supposed to identify some feature of the tree such as pine cones or something. Can you see the leaf pattern, or details of the trunk in our tree above? Perhaps an arborist can identify the tree to some degree by the shape of its canopy. I would hazard a guess it is an Oak of some sort. What we can do is be certain the tree does appear to have some sort of woody trunk and branches . We can also say that the tree does differ from the grass there in that it is woody. So, being woody is the only difference between trees and all other living things. In philosophy, we would call that the species of the living thing we are talking about - that it is woody, it contains wood matter. It a