Scott Turner on Purpose in Nature, Part 1
Intelligent Design The Future
English - September 25, 2020 00:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MB - ★★★★ - 508 ratingsScience biology controversy creationism csc culture darwin Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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 from the vault, Rob Crowther interviews him about his 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.