An example of teleology in popular science writing:
"Eyes are not designed for picking out individual colours, but for using colour to distinguish shapes and objects."
Brian Clegg
Clegg, B. (2015). Light Years. The extraordinary story of mankind's fascination with light. Icon.
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Examples of teleological statements are included in a document listing a wide range of examples of science analogies, similes, metaphors and the like, drawn from diverse sources, which can be downloaded using this link: 'Creative Comparisons: Making Science Familiar through Language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts.'
