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Biologist J. Scott Turner: Sternberg and the “Central Dilemma of Evolutionism”

The new book from Discovery Institute Press is currently the Amazon #1 bestseller in Genetics and #1 in Developmental Biology. Read More ›
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Plato’s Revenge: Intelligent Design in Real Time

David Klinghoffer engages Richard Sternberg’s big questions, and a number of his own, on philosophical, scientific, and even highly personal planes. Read More ›
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Big Science Is the Toxic Spoiled Brat of Academic Life

The scheme has a name, a blandly harmless-sounding one. It’s called “indirect costs.” Read More ›
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Listen: Scott Turner on Evolutionary Biology’s Mechanistic Bias

Viewing the brain as a computer, for example, obscures many things about the brain and the mind that exceed computers, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Read More ›
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Listen: Turner, Meyer, and Bernard’s Dangerous Idea

“There is intelligence that underlies the evolutionary process. You cannot explain it without that.” Read More ›
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Kudzu Science: Ken Miller’s The Human Instinct

Miller is one of those “settled science” bullies. Here he sets his sights on essayist Marilynne Robinson. Read More ›
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What Evolution “Controversy”? Scott Turner Gets High Praise from Quarterly Review of Biology

If you want to know what scientists themselves think about the current status of evolutionary theory, you have to look behind the curtain. Read More ›
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How Scott Turner Evolved

Turner is a really interesting case of a scientist who straddles design and evolutionary thinking. Read More ›
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Biologist Scott Turner: What Is Life? And Other Simple Questions

The picture of life that biologist Scott Turner sketches in his recent book is remarkable, and not easy to fully take aboard in your mind. Read More ›
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Can the Rot of Naturalism Be Stopped? Relating Information to Matter and Energy Might Help

A New Yorker obit for naturalist atheist philosopher Jerry Fodor noted Fodor’s dismissal of the “natural selection” cult but, surprisingly, did not offer polite contempt. Read More ›

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