teleologist
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Will the teleologist maintain that this selective process is itself indicative of special design?
From Thoughts on Religion by Gore, Charles
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
In studying biological phenomena we are all at present in the intellectual position of our imaginary teleologist when studying the marine bay: we do not know the natural causes which have produced the observed results.
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
Indeed he is a very decided teleologist on lines of his own, and, in physiology, takes sides strongly with 'vitalism' as against pure mechanicism.
From Schopenhauer by Whittaker, Thomas
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