The Human Question

It's starting point is NOT the ID claim that things around us in nature are evidently engineered/designed/programmed things in the past, but Thomas's claim that beings that operate right now are truly acting for an objective purpose (including what is per se good for them). If the way beings operate right now shows true teleology, then talk of "the good" as a kind of transcendental is legitimate.  And our reasoning about goodness points to The Good. Objection: if the way beings operate right now is considered teleological by us through a kind of anthropomorphism, then perhaps the only teleology we might rightly affirm is that associated with human action.  The rest is illusory. My reply is to point to a dilemma: (1.) if human beings themselves have a genuinely objective purpose, our reasoning about human goals may still lead us to affirm The Good.  (2.) if humans don't, then moral reasoning is illusory as well.  Relativism kicks in.  Arguments against God ...