Aristotle's Response to Empedocles

Aristotle's response to empedocles is, i think, a reasonably effective one. But we add the machinery of modern genetics and evolutionary theory, it seems that we really can dispense with final causes here. Some scholars still attempt a last ditch defence of aristotle by adopting a less metaphysically loaded reading of his teleology. We can reserve final judgment for a few weeks, since i will be devoting a future episode to aristotle's views about animals.