Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of…

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Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose ✨ Richard Dawkins (2015). The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company
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The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harco … ▶
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Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose ✨ Richard Dawkins (2015). The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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