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Book review: The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself by J. Scott Turner
Bergman, J. 2008.  Origins-GRI 62:33-35. CELD ID 22597

Abstract
Almost one hundred and fifty years Darwin's seminal publication "there is still little agreement" on the main question that he attempted to answer: the origin of species. Scott Turner eloquently addresses this problem, demonstrating that modern "evolutionary biology doesn't really have a good answer" to many fundamental questions, including how "an unintentional process" such as natural selection "can produce intentional beings" like us (p 29). Turner stresses that "dogmatic insistence" on Darwinian mutation and selection as the only agent of design "has encumbered us with blinders that keep us from seeing an answer" (p 29).