Author: J. Scott Turner
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: life, itself, emerges, design, accomplice, tinkerer
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0674023536
ISBN-13: 9780674023536

Most people, when they contemplate the living world, conclude that it is a designed place. So it is jarring when biologists come along and say this is all wrong. What most people see as design, they say--purposeful, directed, even intelligent--is only an illusion, something cooked up in a mind that is eager to see purpose where none exists. In these days of increasingly assertive challenges to Darwinism, the question becomes acute: is our perception of design simply a mental figment, or is there something deeper at work? Physiologist Scott Turner argues eloquently and convincingly that the a