Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It Book Information:

Scott Turner contends. To be scientists, we force ourselves into a Hobsons 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 lifes 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 exhibiting purpose and desire to maintain homeostasis to sustain life is the most distinctive quality shared by all living things. In Purpose and Desire, Turner draws on the work of Claude Bernard, a contemporary of Darwin revered within evolutionary circles, to build on Bernards dangerous ideaof vitalism, which seeks to identify what makes lifea unique phenomenon of nature. To further its quest to achieve a fuller understanding of life, Turner argues, science must move beyond strictly accepted measures that consider only the mechanics of nature.A thoughtful appeal to widen our perspective of biology that is grounded in scientific evidence, Purpose and Desire helps us bridge the ideological evolutionary divide.

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Higher Education Textbooks

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Paperback

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English

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978006265156

• Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It Published On :

30 Dec 2017

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