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In Purpose and Desire, Scott Turner Argues that Cognition Is Foundational to Life

The evidence of purpose and design permeate life at every level, and this evidence presents ever increasing challenges to all theories of undirected evolution. Read More ›
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Michael Shermer and the Laws of Complexity

Recently, atheist Michael Shermer debated Catholic philosopher Edward Feser. The subject was Feser’s new book on five arguments for the existence of God. Read More ›
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Biologist Scott Turner’s Purpose and Desire, In His Own Words

If Turner is right, the clockwork, mechanistic, DNA-centric model may have met its match. Read More ›
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In Purpose & Desire, Out Today, Scott Turner Explores Biology’s Second Law

As Turner says, homeostasis is an exceedingly strange idea. Yet without homeostasis there is no life. Read More ›
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Must Life Evolve?

In redefining life to make its origin easier to explain, origin-of-life researchers are now increasingly emphasizing the ability of life to evolve. Read More ›
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Biologist J. Scott Turner’s Rediscovery – How Darwinism Fatally Overlooks What Life Is

Intellectual discovery is often a matter of rediscovery: reviving insights that were available before but overlooked, forgotten, or neglected. Read More ›
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Biologist Laments, “I Want Deeply for [Darwinism] to Make Sense”

In his provocative new book Purpose and Desire, J. Scott Turner tells the story about the Christmas pony. Read More ›

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