Tag: Purpose and Desire
Big Science Is the Toxic Spoiled Brat of Academic Life
The scheme has a name, a blandly harmless-sounding one. It’s called “indirect costs.”
Scott Turner: New Video Series on His Model for Evolution
Darwin’s ideas have become a flashpoint in the culture, so any discussion of the science can easily become highly polarized and politicized.
Intention, Agency, Even in “Simple” Life Is No Illusion
As biologist Scott Turner explains, the appearance is not false but very real, a fact from whose profound implications most scientists veil their eyes.
Listen: Turner, Meyer, and Bernard’s Dangerous Idea
“There is intelligence that underlies the evolutionary process. You cannot explain it without that.”
Kudzu Science: Ken Miller’s The Human Instinct
Miller is one of those “settled science” bullies. Here he sets his sights on essayist Marilynne Robinson.