{"product_id":"purpose-and-desire-what-makes-something-alive-and-why-modern-darwinism-has-failed-to-explain-it-9780062651563","title":"Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something \"Alive\" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It","description":"\u003cp\u003eA professor  biologist  and physiologist argues that modern Darwinisms materialist and mechanistic biases have led to a scientific dead end  unable to define what life isand 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 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 lifes most distinctive quality  shared by all living things  is purpose and desire: maintain homeostasis to sustain life. In Purpose and Desire  Turner draws on the work of Claude Bernard  a contemporary of Darwin revered among physiologists as the founder of experimental medicine  to build on Bernards \"dangerous idea\" of vitalism  which seeks to identify what makes \"life\" a 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647884877877,"sku":"ByrdShop_0062651560","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780062651563.jpg?v=1781698731","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/purpose-and-desire-what-makes-something-alive-and-why-modern-darwinism-has-failed-to-explain-it-9780062651563","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}