teleologist
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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.
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
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
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
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
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