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Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scott Turner: New Video Series on His Model for Evolution

Darwin’s ideas have become a flashpoint in the culture, so any discussion of the science can easily become highly polarized and politicized. 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 ›
Claude Bernard with students

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

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

How Scott Turner Evolved

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

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

"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 ›
Purpose and Desire

Scott Turner’s Purpose and Desire — An Important New Voice in the Evolution Debate

The latest biologist to come out swinging at Darwinism, Dr. Turner is not a proponent of intelligent design. Read More ›

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