Is the Telelogical view of Human History Really Dead? A choice between the view that life on earth and the emergence of human civilisation are all an immense and incredible accident, and the view that there is an overall purpose and direction to life and human history: Darwin discarded once and for all the last vestiges of Aristotelian thought concerning the evolution of living beings. A teleological explanation would no longer do. The evolution of life on Earth would no longer unfold according to a grand design; nor would it tend to a final cause. On the contrary, it developed at the whim of random mutations and was driven by natural selection. (Trinh Xuan Thuan, Chaos and Harmony , 2001) Baha’is believe that in a future Golden Age—in which a self-governing world commonwealth emerges as the fruit of social evolution enlightened by Baha’i socio-moral principles...., according to the teleological Baha’i vision of the inevitable course of human history. (Christopher Buck)
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