Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something Alive..... - J. Scott Turner epub/mobi

Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something Alive and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It - J. Scott Turner epub/mobi



A professor, biologist, and physiologist argues that modern Darwinism's materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end, unable to define what life is--and only an openness to the qualities of purpose and desire will move the field forward.

Scott Turner contends. To be scientists, we force ourselves into a Hobson's choice on the matter: accept intentionality and purposefulness as real attributes of life, which disqualifies you as a scientist; or become a scientist and dismiss life's distinctive quality from your thinking. I have come to believe that this choice actually stands in the way of our having a fully coherent theory of life.

Growing research shows that life's most distinctive quality, shared by all living things, is purpose and desire................