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Sean Faircloth:
Attack of the Theocrats!
'For instance, 4-year-olds insist that everything has a purpose, including lions ("to go in the zoo") and clouds ("for raining"), a propensity called "promiscuous teleology".'
Is this the same mistaken assumption as 'The earth has been created in such a way as to make it hospitable to humans'£
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