Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of using teleology to explan scientific ideas:
"…that word 'Darwinian' – after Charles Darwin, the Victorian naturalist who did far more than suggest that living species evolve. He argued that they do this for a reason – to adapt to the changing circumstances of their environment – and that they do so by means of natural selection, or 'survival of the fittest'."
Andrew May (2019) Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe
Tags: evolution, natural selection
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