An example of teleological language in explaining science:
"Within about 10-32 seconds, the scalar fields would have done their work, doubling the size of the Universe at least once every 10–34 seconds…At that point, the scalar field has done its work of kick-starting the Universe, and is settling down, giving up its energy and leaving a hot fireball expanding so rapidly that, even though gravity can now begin to do its work of pulling everything back into a Big Crunch, it will take hundreds of billions of years first to halt the expansion and then to reverse it."
John Gribbin (1996) Companion to the Cosmos. (Ed., Mary Gribbin) Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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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.'
