teleologist
Americannoun
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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
Galen is a teleologist; and a teleologist of a kind whose views happened to fit in with the prevailing theological attitude of the Middle Ages, whether Christian, Moslem, or Jewish.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.
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
Will the teleologist maintain that this selective process is itself indicative of special design?
From Thoughts on Religion by Gore, Charles
What the Darwinian does is to deny the validity of the evidence which the teleologist brings to prove his case.
From A Grammar of Freethought by Cohen, Chapman
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