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  • Teleology is a proposal which must be supported; in the absence of support, it fails without anyone presenting evidence against it.

    An Ode to ID 2009

  • Teleology is consistent with both transformism and fixism.

    At What Level did this Evolve? 2009

  • Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

    C.S. Lewis on Evolutionism (the Myth) 2009

  • 289 The word Teleology is also, but inconveniently and improperly, employed by some writers as a name for the attempt to explain the phenomena of the universe from final causes.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • Teleology is usually crap, but not when we’re dealing with a product of human design.

    Matthew Yglesias » Gold Farming 2007

  • For that matter, without Teleology, which is Theistic, what becomes of the Aristotelian notions of essence and potentiality?

    Well Behaved Women don’t get health care reform « Knitting Clio 2009

  • Nevertheless it is necessary to remember that there is a wider Teleology, which is not touched by the doctrine of Evolution, but is actually based upon the fundamental proposition of Evolution.

    Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Every art is thus a joint result of laws of nature disclosed by science, and of the general principles of what has been called Teleology, or the Doctrine of

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • 'Teleology' is derived from the Greek word telos, which means 'end.

    Vanguard alexsamade 2010

  • 'Teleology' is derived from the Greek word telos, which means 'end.

    Vanguard alexsamade 2010

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