The scientific observations and theories that compose the lower layer of the cake do not in and of themselves carry teleological conclusions (though they might be consistent with such conclusions). They cannot do so, because the presence of a purpose cannot be falsified. So some scientists might believe that the lower layer is all there is. For them the naturalistic causes are all that can be affirmed, and they do not believe in a purpose, for their layer, their worldview, their metaphysics, have no room for God. This view is exclusively materialistic and could be described as dysteleological
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