Reviewer: Although finalism -- the view that there are purposes in nature -- has been universally rejected, this book launches another attack on that view  Its arguments are based on a complete misunderstanding of the operation of pure chance in nature and so it fails as a critique of finalism
Finalism, ttherefore, is clearly more plausible than people have thought
Few botanists deny that a recently discovered fern is the same species represented in ancient fossils. The botanists who first discovered this specimen deny that it is the same species as the ancient one, but they have spent little time studying the specimen. Ttherefore, the specimen is likely to be the same species represented in the ancient fossils.