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Macroevolution Vs Kuhn
So while Kuhn's incommensurability and macroevolution have a contacting point through the idea of the emergence of new species vis-à-vis Kuhn’s paradigm shift, the main implication of parallelism is in their non-purposive worldview. Kuhn posits, "The Origin of Species recognized no goal set either by God or nature. Instead, natural selection, operating in the given environment and with the actual organisms presently at hand was responsible for gradual but steady emergence of more elaborate, further articulated, and vastly more specialized organisms." In other words, both are a mindless and blind process where life that began with no purpose or goal whatsoever as it lacks formal cause and final cause. And that means, in both cases, no teleological

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