Catholics and Intelligent Design, Part Three

This is the third in a series responding to certain Catholic critics of intelligent design. In the previous installment, we examined the various meanings of the word "mechanism," and the ways in which nature's teleology is immanent and extrinsic. In this installment, we ponder whether ID ought to be considered "teleo-mechanistic" in its assumptions and implications. We also discuss the ways in which ID is really a tertium quid that should not be simply identified either with Aristotelianism o...