What author has contributed to such works as "New Statesmen", "The Nation", and "The Atlantic", among others, while also being being associated with Dysteleology?
Dysteleology Dysteleology is the philosophical view that existence has no "telos" or final cause from purposeful design. The term "dysteleology" is a modern word invented and popularized by Ernst Haeckel. Dysteleology is an aggressive, yet optimistic, form of science-oriented atheism originally perhaps associated with Haeckel and his followers, but now perhaps more associated with the type of atheism of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, or Christopher Hitchens. Transcending traditional philosophical and religious perspectives, such as German idealism (including the philosophies of Hegel and Schelling) and contemporary New Age thinking, modern philosophical naturalism sees existence as having no inherent goal.
David Ellis Dickerson David Ellis Dickerson is an American author, humorist and contributor to National Public Radio's "This American Life". Dickerson formerly worked at Hallmark as a greeting card writer and is the unofficial Greeting Card Laureate of National Public Radio. He is creator of the web series "Greeting Card Emergency", on which he writes greeting cards for unusual situations. He has also contributed to "The Atlantic".