Tag: J. Scott Turner

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Date
April 30, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Amazon, biology, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, developmental biology, Discovery Institute Press, epigenetics, evolution, evolutionary theory, evolutionism, gene expression, genes, heredity, immaterial genome, intelligent design, intolerance, J. Scott Turner, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg}

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

_{Science and Culture
April 30, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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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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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
April 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Tagged
, agency, archaeology, Big Bang, biology, Brian Miller, Cambrian Explosion, cells, complex and specified information, DNA, embryo, evolutionary, evolutionism, genes, heresy, historical sciences, history, immaterial genome, intelligent cause, intelligent design, J. Scott Turner, National Museum of Natural History, peer-reviewed literature, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Platonism, purpose, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Wall Street Journal}

Plato’s Revenge: Intelligent Design in Real Time

_{Emily Sandico
April 28, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy

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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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 18, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Tagged
, equity, Evolution News, funding, inclusion, J. Scott Turner, kickbacks, money, National Association of Scholars, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Purpose and Desire, senators, South Africa, taxpayers, universities, wokeness}

Big Science Is the Toxic Spoiled Brat of Academic Life

_{David Klinghoffer
August 18, 2022

Bioethics, Culture

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The scheme has a name, a blandly harmless-sounding one. It’s called “indirect costs.” Read More ›

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Date
October 10, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, brain, computers, Darwinism, evolutionary biology, genes, ID the Future, intentionality, J. Scott Turner, mechanistic view, mind, purpose, Purpose and Design, Robert Crowther, State University of New York, SUNY}

Listen: Scott Turner on Evolutionary Biology’s Mechanistic Bias

_{Science and Culture
October 10, 2020

Biology, Evolution

1}

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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 7, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, biologist, Claude Bernard, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary theory, homeostasis, intelligent design, J. Scott Turner, Purpose and Desire, radio, State University of New York, Stephen Meyer}

Listen: Turner, Meyer, and Bernard’s Dangerous Idea

_{David Klinghoffer
June 7, 2018

Intelligent Design

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“There is intelligence that underlies the evolutionary process. You cannot explain it without that.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 4, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Ann Gauger, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwin's Doubt, David Berlinski, David Premack, fossil record, intelligent evolution, J. Scott Turner, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, Neo-Darwinism, Purpose and Desire, Quarterly Review of Biology, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, spandrels, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Human Instinct, Thomas Nagel, Wendell Berry}

Kudzu Science: Ken Miller’s The Human Instinct

_{Michael Flannery
May 4, 2018

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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Miller is one of those “settled science” bullies. Here he sets his sights on essayist Marilynne Robinson. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 26, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Addy Pross, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Cambridge University, controversy, debate, ID the Future, intelligent design, Israel, J. Scott Turner, Live Science, National Academy of Sciences, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), National Public Radio, Neo-Darwinism, Oxford University Press, Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It, Quarterly Review of Biology, Stephen Meyer, Steven Newton, termite mounds, What is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology}

What Evolution “Controversy”? Scott Turner Gets High Praise from Quarterly Review of Biology

_{David Klinghoffer
March 26, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 24, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Cambridge University, Darwinian theory, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, J. Scott Turner, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, npr, podcast, Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It, Robert Crowther, Scopes Monkey Trial, State University of New York, Stephen Meyer, storytelling, worldview}

How Scott Turner Evolved

_{David Klinghoffer
March 24, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Turner is a really interesting case of a scientist who straddles design and evolutionary thinking. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 18, 2018

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Life Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, bacteria, cognition, Darwinian evolution, death, ID the Future, intentionality, J. Scott Turner, life, machinery, materialism, microscopes, podcast, Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It, resources, Rob Crowther, robot, vitalism}

Biologist Scott Turner: What Is Life? And Other Simple Questions

_{David Klinghoffer
March 18, 2018

Biology, Chemistry, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Life Sciences, Physics

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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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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 20, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, __k-review, anti-science, Arlin Stoltzfus, Cinderella, consciousness, Ford Doolittle, Grand Unified Theory, GUT, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, J. Scott Turner, James Tour, Jerry Fodor, John Searle, Karl Popper, modernity, NASA, naturalism, Plato, post-modernism, Sabine Hossenfelder, trolls, UFOs, Wikipedia}

Can the Rot of Naturalism Be Stopped? Relating Information to Matter and Energy Might Help

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 20, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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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 ›