Scott Turner on Purpose in Nature, Part 1

Episode 1103 March 12, 2018 00:26:31
Scott Turner on Purpose in Nature, Part 1
Intelligent Design the Future
Scott Turner on Purpose in Nature, Part 1

Mar 12 2018 | 00:26:31

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Show Notes

Scott Turner is a biologist and physiologist, a professor at State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry and visiting professor at Cambridge. In this episode, Rob Crowther interviews him about his new book Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something Alive and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed To Explain It. Turner argues that modern Darwinism has reached a scientific dead end, unable to tell us what life is, treats many of its features — including purpose and desire — virtually as illusions. There’s a better way to view life, says Turner.

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