Teleological perspective

When we see the logic of the whole guiding the evolution of the parts, then we must recognize that each part—of a body, an ecosystem, the biosphere—has a purpose that we may not ever fully understand, not even if we measure its every component.
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With awareness of a purpose to all things, no longer will we so cavalierly try to improve on nature.
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Lack of purpose, on the other hand, makes us the masters of the universe.
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There is no higher plan in which we might interfere.
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No natural order which we might disrupt.
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Today we are discovering such hubris to be sorely misguided.
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The pieces of nature or the body we once thought useless or redundant actually have unsuspected functions in maintaining the health and integrity of the whole.
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Our "improvements" come with hidden costs, stemming from these unseen functions, that we scramble to cover with yet more improvements.
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From a teleological perspective, the failure of the technological fix and the program of control is inevitable.
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Charles Eisenstein