When I was taking freshman biology in college, the teacher told us in the opening day of the lecture, she said,

we're going to study biology, but don't anybody ever ask me any questions of teleology.

They're out of order. They're beyond the scope of the scientific enterprise.

And I wanted to jump up and say, then science has become a prostitute and not a means

to pursue knowledge.

Because what more important knowledge can we discover than the question why we are here?

What is the purpose of these things?

It's when a nation abandons teleology that its laws become confused to the extent that there's

a federal crime to destroy the eggs of fish while the embryos of human beings

can be slaughtered because people aren't asking why. Metaphysics is not simply for the

ivory tower scholar or for the thinker. How we perceive metaphysics, how we perceive being, and how we perceive purpose,

touches the very heart of our lives.

Thanks for listening to Ultimately with R.C. Sprole.

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