teleologist
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The arteries lie deeper than the veins, or are otherwise protected, for the purpose—as a teleologist would say—of preventing serious loss of blood from superficial cuts.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various
The denial of final causes is the formative idea of Darwin's theory, and therefore no teleologist can be a Darwinian.
From What is Darwinism? by Hodge, Charles
Will the teleologist maintain that this selective process is itself indicative of special design?
From Thoughts on Religion by Gore, Charles
The teleologist can always defy the evolutionist to disprove that the primordial molecular arrangement was not intended to evolve the phenomena of the universe.”
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus
It is the mind thus stored with the choicest materials of the teleologist that rejects teleology, seeking to refer these wonders to natural causes.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
This argument is at any rate perfectly valid against Schopenhauer himself; for he holds in common with the optimistic teleologists that 'nature does nothing in vain.'
From Schopenhauer by Whittaker, Thomas
He taught that “the most puzzling things of all to the old-school teleologists are the principia of the Darwinian.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
The special teleologists, such as Paley, occupy themselves with the latter only; they refer particular facts to special design, but leave an overwhelming array of the widest facts inexplicable.
From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Gray, Asa
The teleologists have long told us that the valves in the veins of the arms and legs assist in the return of blood to the heart against gravitation.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various
Professor Henderson concedes very little to the vitalists or the teleologists.
From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John
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