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First there was the genetic revolution-the discovery that physical structures in the cell, including DNA and RNA, shape every organism. Now, says evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg, we are overdue for another and more profound revolution. Recent findings reveal that genetic and even epigenetic sources alone cannot account for the rich dynamism of life-not even close. Some other informational source is required. The idea was anticipated 2,400 years ago in Plato's Timaeus, and periodically revisited in the ensuing centuries. Sidelined by scientific materialism, it is now reasserting itself on the strength of cutting-edge molecular biology, higher mathematics, and commonsense reasoning. In Plato's Revenge, science writer David Klinghoffer takes Sternberg's profound explorations and weaves them into a lively and accessible account of a most remarkable realization: At every moment, we owe our lives to a genome that is more than matter, and to an informational source that is immaterial, transcomputational, and beyond space and time.

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David Klinghoffer... writes compellingly about Richard Sternberg himself and the controversy that engulfed him, revealing the shocking intolerance at the heart of Darwinism. More importantly, he frames Sternberg's story within the concept of the ""immaterial genome,"" anticipating emerging challenges of epigenetics and gene expression that are undermining the gene as the ""atom of heredity."" -J. Scott Turner, Emeritus Professor of Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and author of Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something ""Alive"" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It Klinghoffer's detailed yet accessible and engaging portrayal of such a demandingly wide-ranging topic leaves the reader breathless in anticipation of Sternberg's emerging synthesis of what almost certainly will prove to be one of the most momentous developments in the history of science. -Stephen Iacoboni, MD, award-winning researcher, oncologist, and author of Telos: The Scientific Basis for a Life of Purpose This book unites the best elements of metaphysics with cutting-edge science to put the threadbare materialist reductionisms of the neo-Darwinists to shame. -Michael A. Flannery, author of Nature's Prophet: Alfred Russel Wallace and His Evolution from Natural Selection to Natural Theology As Klinghoffer explains, Sternberg has woven together the fields of biology, mathematics, and philosophy to argue that an organism's genome is not entirely contained in DNA. Moreover... the control center that directs an embryo to develop into an adult requires far more information than could be contained in the entire initial cell, let alone DNA. The control center must reside in a mathematical structure outside of time and space. -Brian Miller, PhD, primary organizer of the Conference on Engineering in the Life Sciences Linking Plato with cutting-edge modern science research, the author makes much of the work of Richard Sternberg who, like Plato before him, posits an immaterial force beyond physical reality. Invoking up-to-date scientific findings he observes that neither DNA nor any other known epigenetic factors can account for us in the fullest sense. Beyond genetics and epigenetics there must lie some Platonic reality all its own.... The volume is to be highly recommended, and readers may be glad to hear that even the most rebarbative-sounding ""hard science"" is presented with an admirable lucidity. -Neil Thomas, Reader Emeritus, University of Durham; author of Taking Leave of Darwin David Klinghoffer's wonderfully readable book explores some breathtaking implications of the latest natural science in an area-genetics-that touches deeply on our origins, our characters, and perhaps our souls. -Spencer Klavan, author of Light of the Mind, Light of the World: Illuminating Science Through Faith To understand organisms in all their complexity, argues Richard Sternberg, we must break completely with nineteenth-century materialism and reconsider the thought of ancient greats such as Plato and Aristotle.... David Klinghoffer does a masterful job of explaining Sternberg's revolutionary thought in a delightfully accessible way. -Jay Richards, PhD, co-author of The Privileged Planet and editor of God and Evolution

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