ABSTRACT
Rope Kojonen's examination of the exchanges between Asa Gray and Charles Darwin makes a very welcome contribution to both historical and conceptual understanding of the place of teleology in evolutionary theory. Efforts to ground a theory of teleology are still common. So to further the conversation, the author wants to briefly ruminate on three matters that were stimulated by Kojonen's helpful intervention. These congregate around evolutionary conceptions of the idea of biological design. First, it's clear that the idea of design can be packaged in many different ways, and it's important to try and map out some of the differences. Second, the idea of evolutionary design that makes no reference to any creative mind has flourished in recent years. To some, Darwin succeeded in banishing design from the natural order. Third. Perhaps appropriately, Natural Selection has been extremely fertile in spawning new metaphors.
