Tag: J. Scott Turner
Scott Turner’s Purpose and Desire — An Important New Voice in the Evolution Debate
The latest biologist to come out swinging at Darwinism, Dr. Turner is not a proponent of intelligent design.
Pro-Darwin Biology Professor Laments Academia’s “Intolerance” and Supports Teaching Intelligent Design
Charles Darwin famously said, “A fair result can be obtained only by fully balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.” According to a recent article by J. Scott Turner, a pro-Darwin biology professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, modern Neo-Darwinists are failing to heed Darwin’s advice. (We blogged about a similar article by Turner in The Chronicle of Higher Education in January, 2007.) Turner is up front with his skepticism of intelligent design (ID), which will hopefully allow his criticisms to strike a chord with other Darwinists. Turner starts by observing that the real threat to education today is not ID itself, but the attitude of scientists towards ID: Read More ›