Scott Turner on Purpose in Nature, Part 2

Episode 1106 March 21, 2018 00:22:36
Scott Turner on Purpose in Nature, Part 2
Intelligent Design the Future
Scott Turner on Purpose in Nature, Part 2

Mar 21 2018 | 00:22:36

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Rob Crowther continues his conversation with J. Scott Turner, biologist at the State University of New York (SUNY), visiting scholar at Cambridge University, and author of the new book Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something “Alive” and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It. Turner critiques evolutionary biology’s bias toward mechanistic and gene-centric thinking, and contemporary biology’s failure to come to grips with the evidence of purpose and intentionality at many levels of biology. Viewing the brain as a computer, for example, obscures many things about the brain and the mind that exceed computers, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

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