Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It
By J. Scott Turner.
Description
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. "To be scientists, we force ourselves into a Hobson’s choice on the matter: accept intentionality and purposefulness as real attributes of life, which disqualifies you as a scientist; or become a scientist and dismiss life’s distinctive quality from your thinking. I have c...
ISBN(s)
0062651560, 9780062651563
