Where Evolution Breaks with Reality
A conversation with J. Scott Turner
The Darwin-Wallace framework for how organisms evolve stands tall, but there are places where the seams show, where life presses back with its own kind of intention. Scott Turner guides us through those overlooked corners, tracing the ideas that slipped between theory and experience. We find organisms not as passive machines, but as players in a deeper, older rhythm. And in that recognition, the story of evolution widens into something more awake, more alive.
00:00 Go!
00:09:00 Evolution’s Philosophical Foundations
00:12:00 Linnaeus and Early Taxonomy
00:18:00 Idealism vs. Darwinian Thought
00:23:27 Ideological Divide in Evolutionary Theory
00:25:03 Early Evolutionary Inquiry and Natural Theology
00:29:00 Darwin’s Voyage and Observations
00:33:57 Intelligence, Purpose, and Evolution
00:37:30 Geological and Evolutionary Gradualism vs. Catastrophism
00:41:40 Darwin & Wallace: Collaboration and Legacy
00:46:34 Mutationism vs. Natural Selection
00:49:44 Reconciling Mutationism and Darwinism
00:53:00 The Eclipse of Darwinism and Rediscovery of Mendel
00:56:14 Evolution, Loss of Purpose and Agency
01:00:30 Darwin’s Pangenesis Theory
01:09:06 Biology, Culture, and Evolution
01:11:07 Evolutionary Theories and Future Directions