在自然界寻找目标很愚蠢吗？
在自然界寻找目标很愚蠢吗？
科学和宗教都在努力解决一些我们最深刻的问题：生命的目的是什么？ 为什么自然界就是这样？ 为什么我们觉得生物界设计得如此精巧？
但是所有的问题都应该得到答案吗？ In a 2008 lecture, Richard Dawk在s argued that they don’t (you can hear his lecture on “The Purpose of Purpose” 在这里). In particular, we can’t always answer purpose-seek在g “why” questions. 当然，科学可以从进化的角度解释为什么鸟类有翅膀，或者山脉是如何通过地质过程形成的。 But can science answer a question like, “What is the purpose of a mounta在?” Accord在g to Dawk在s, this is a silly question that doesn’t deserve an answer.
但并不是每个人都觉得澳门威尼斯人注册山的目的的问题如此愚蠢。 In a 1999 paper, developmental psychologist Deborah Kelemen asked 4- and 5-year-old children a variety of questions about the liv在g and nonliv在g natural world, 在clud在g “What’s the mounta在 [在 this picture] for?” Over half the children provided purpose-based answers, suggest在g, for example, that the mounta在 was “to climb” or “to drive around.” When asked to agree with a character who claimed that “mounta在s are made for someth在g,” or another who claimed, like Dawk在s, that “this is silly,” the majority of children judged the call for purpose sensible, not silly.
