Best Books of the Year — Discovery Institute Takes Honors in World Magazine’s “Origins” Category

_{David Klinghoffer
November 28, 2017

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The year's top “best” book is Tom Bethell’s Darwin’s House of Cards (Discovery Institute Press). Read More ›

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Ann Gauger

Date
November 9, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, __k-review, binding site, DNA, E. coli, evolution, glucose, homeostasis, J. Scott Turner, Jerry Coyne, lactose, natural selection, proteins, Purpose & Desire, RNA polymerase, transcription, Why Evolution Is True}

Purpose and Desire Meets Jerry Coyne: The Evolution of Homeostasis?

_{Ann Gauger
November 9, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Consider one of the simplest kinds of homeostasis — just one part of the regulation of sugar metabolism in E coli. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 25, 2017

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, bestseller, Brian Miller, Darwinism, Eric Metaxas, evolution, intelligent design, J. Scott Turner, life, materialism, New York Times, Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It, State University of New York}

Under Materialism, No Meaning to Life — and No Life, Either

_{David Klinghoffer
October 25, 2017

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

2}

Biologist Scott Turner’s spot-on phrase, the “Reverse Pinocchio,” captures the idea well. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 25, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, ants, bacteria, cells, cognition, DNA, homeostasis, intelligent design, intentionality, J. Scott Turner, Lynn Margulis, mutations, natural selection, purpose, Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It}

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

_{Brian Miller
October 25, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

8}

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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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
October 23, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptation, cell membrane, cells, Christianity, chromosome, cognition, cytoskeleton, Darwinism, DNA, evolution, homeostasis, intelligent design, J. Scott Turner, Jonathan Wells, microbial mats, mitosis, physiology, Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It, teleology, termite mounds}

Biologist Scott Turner’s Purpose and Desire, In His Own Words

_{Ann Gauger
October 23, 2017

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

11}

If Turner is right, the clockwork, mechanistic, DNA-centric model may have met its match. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 17, 2017

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
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, __edited, Adam Frank, cerebral cortex, clinical death, consciousness, epilepsy, Ethan Siegel, J. Scott Turner, Michael Flannery, multiverse, Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It, William James}

Nature, as Defined Today, Cannot Be All There Is

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 17, 2017

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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Science is on the move. It is slowly morphing from observing nature to embodying naturalism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 26, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, agency, Charles Darwin, Darwinian theory, evolution, J. Scott Turner, life, New York Times, Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It, Wall Street Journal}

Scott Turner’s Darwin-Skeptical Purpose and Desire Wins Praise from the New York Times

_{David Klinghoffer
September 26, 2017

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

2}

A “notable” addition to the Darwin literature, a “good read and a strong pitch” – agreed, though we’d go further. If Turner is right, his argument would change everything. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
September 12, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, calcium, Claude Bernard, homeostasis, Howard Glicksman, J. Scott Turner, kidney, Michael Denton, neo-Darwinian processes, Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It, temperature}

In Purpose & Desire, Out Today, Scott Turner Explores Biology’s Second Law

_{Ann Gauger
September 12, 2017

Intelligent Design

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

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 6, 2017

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, Christianity, Darwinism, evolution, Fire-Maker, intelligent design, intentionality, J. Scott Turner, Jerry Coyne, materialism, Michael Egnor, Purpose & Desire, purposefulness, State University of New York, United Kingdom}

Scott Turner on Biology’s Hobson’s Choice – Time Running Out on Pre-publication Deal!

_{David Klinghoffer
September 6, 2017

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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"The phrase is said to have originated with Thomas Hobson (1544–1631), who offered customers the choice of either taking the horse in his stall nearest to the door or taking none at all." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 18, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Claude Bernard, Darwinian theory, evolution, homeostasis, intelligent design, J. Scott Turner, Lawrence Henderson, Michael Denton, Michael Flannery, Purpose & Desire}

Biologist J. Scott Turner’s Rediscovery – How Darwinism Fatally Overlooks What Life Is

_{David Klinghoffer
July 18, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

3}

Intellectual discovery is often a matter of rediscovery: reviving insights that were available before but overlooked, forgotten, or neglected. Read More ›