Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (650 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062651560 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A thoughtful appeal to widen our perspective of biology that is grounded in scientific evidence, Purpose and Desire helps us bridge the ideological evolutionary divide.. A professor, biologist, and physiologist 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.Scott Turner contends. In Purpose and Desire, Turner draws on the work of Claude Bernard, a contemporary of Darwin revered among physiologists as the founder of experimental medicine, to build on Bernard’s "dangerous idea" of vitalism, which seeks to identify what makes "life" a unique phenomenon of nature. To further its quest to achieve a fuller understanding of life, Turner argues, science must move beyond strictly accepted measures that consider only
This book is a must read for all those who follow the ongoing Neo-Darwinian-Intelligent Design debate.” (Norm Book, Senior Director Carr-McClellan P.C.)“Illuminating and persuasive. Meyer, Ph.D., Author, Signature in the Cell and Darwin’s Doubt)“Ingenious mixture of science and philosophy that points out major defects in Darwinism and then delivers heterodox but provocative solutions…a highly thought-provoking book.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review)) . “Here at last is a book steeped in the intricacies of how species evolve by an acco