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Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something “Alive” and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It

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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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Scott Turner

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

Biologist Scott Turner’s spot-on phrase, the “Reverse Pinocchio,” captures the idea well. Read More ›
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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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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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Nature, as Defined Today, Cannot Be All There Is 

Science is on the move. It is slowly morphing from observing nature to embodying naturalism. Read More ›
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Scott Turner’s Darwin-Skeptical Purpose and Desire Wins Praise from the New York Times

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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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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