"It is quite surprising what these studies show," says Kelemen. "Even though advanced scientific training can reduce acceptance of scientifically inaccurate teleological explanations, it cannot erase a tenacious early-emerging human tendency to find purpose in nature. It seems that our minds may be naturally more geared to religion than science."

 

No, Kelemen, that's a false dichotomy. It's rather that science is a subset of a teleological metaphysics. Naturalism is epistemologically bankrupt.

 

Morality is a subset of a teleological metaphysics. Specific theological theory, political theory and natural science are subsets of morality. There is no way to rationally divorce the institutionalizing of science from the human good. And there is no way to rationally divorce the human good from teleology.

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