Giving living beings and other people a purpose is surely a useful way of moving through the world. But that does not mean that teleology, Aristotle's final cause, is a correct idea.

Psychologist Pascal Wagner-Egger says teleology is a primitive form of thought. Attributing anything to a black hand that governs our destinies is a form of teleological thinking, he says. To think that nonsense, it is better not to think at all, he adds.