Stephen J. Iacoboni

Stephen J. Iacoboni, MD, is an award-winning cancer researcher and has been a practitioner of medical oncology for forty years. In his personal memoir, The Undying Soul, he chronicled his spiritual journey and return to faith. In his latest book, Telos: The Scientific Basis for a Life of Purpose, he offers a unique reconciliation between faith and science. Please feel free to visit him at stepheniacoboni.com.

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Emergence by Design

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
August 30, 2023}

The originators of the concept were two 19th-century British philosopher-scientists, John Stuart Mill and George Henry Lewes.

Something Is Missing from the Materialist Framework

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
July 17, 2023}

Scientists have learned over the centuries that when a fundamental theoretical impasse is encountered, we do not blame nature.

Replacing Chemistry with Purpose

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
June 20, 2023}

The core argument of neo-Darwinism is, simply, that evolution, and life on Earth, are the result of random, aka, purposeless chemical reactions.

Natural Selection Subtracts, It Doesn’t Add — And That Matters

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
May 16, 2023}

In the wild, all organisms must live within their niche. There are no wild polar bears in Arizona, and no iguanas in Alaska.

A New Look at Natural Selection

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 18, 2023}

If you are a pine tree, you need to have antifreeze in your needles if you are rooted beyond certain latitudes or elevations.

The DNA Code Takes My Breath Away; Here’s Why

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
February 23, 2023}

These examples may seem trivial, as if they were just "the way things are," not proving anything. But this is not so.

The Elephant in the Science Lab

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
January 24, 2023}

I have been seeking to describe the science of purpose. Now it is worth getting down to the basics of what science actually is and how it works.

“Why Life?”: A Question Atheist Scientists Never Ask

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
December 21, 2022}

Even something as catastrophic as the eruption of Mount St. Helens was, in the end, a life-giving event.

A Closer Look at the Science of Purpose

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 2, 2022}

You cannot see what you are not looking for. You cannot find Br'er Rabbit until you look into the briar patch.

Defining the “Science of Purpose”

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
September 16, 2022}

The "science of purpose" is new to the analytic framework, and is thus obliged to make the case for its claim to validity.