Tag: J. Scott Turner
Biologist Scott Turner’s Purpose and Desire, In His Own Words
If Turner is right, the clockwork, mechanistic, DNA-centric model may have met its match.
Nature, as Defined Today, Cannot Be All There Is
Science is on the move. It is slowly morphing from observing nature to embodying naturalism.
Scott Turner’s Darwin-Skeptical Purpose and Desire Wins Praise from the New York Times
A “notable” addition to the Darwin literature, a “good read and a strong pitch” – agreed, though we’d go further. If Turner is right, his argument would change everything.
In Purpose & Desire, Out Today, Scott Turner Explores Biology’s Second Law
As Turner says, homeostasis is an exceedingly strange idea. Yet without homeostasis there is no life.
Scott Turner on Biology’s Hobson’s Choice – Time Running Out on Pre-publication Deal!
“The phrase is said to have originated with Thomas Hobson (1544–1631), who offered customers the choice of either taking the horse in his stall nearest to the door or taking none at all.”