Teleology is a major challenge to evolution educators who strive to provide students with a scientifically accurate understanding of evolution. Teleological explanations commonly appeal to ends, goal-directedness, agency, purpose, and intent. Teleological explanations of evolution include the ideas that organisms evolved according to some predetermined direction or plan, purposefully adjusted to new environments, or intentionally enacted evolutionary change; these are scientifically unacceptable teleological explanations.
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