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A physiologist presents a provocative and scientifically rigorous new perspective on Darwinism, design, and why the living world works so well.
When they contemplate nature, they see evidence of design at work. So it is jarring when biologists insist that this perception is all wrong. What most people see as design, they say-purposeful, directed, even intelligent-is only an illusion. But in these days of increasingly assertive challenges to Darwinism,...
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"SUNY professor, biologist, and physiologist J. Scott Turner argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is--and only an openness to the qualities of "purpose and desire" will move the field forward. Turner surveys the history of evolutionary thought, identifying "purpose and desire" as the keys to a coherent science of life and its evolution. In Purpose and Desire,...