Teleology, order, and purpose are to be found even within the non-living mechanical world, so says science. Or to quote the article, "All things restlessly search for rest."
Essentially science has discovered that classical and neo-classical metaphysics (from Aristotle to Hartshorne) were right. That is, in a sense, matter both "living" and "dead" enacts with an ultimate though perhaps unachievable goal in mind. There is, we have discovered, a telos.
http://aeon.co/magazine/nature-and-cosmos/stability-how-life-began-and-why-it-cant-rest/
