Author: Michael Denton

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biosphere, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon-based life, Charles Tanford, ecosystem, electronegativity, elegance, Freeman Dyson, George Wald, glaciers, heat, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, hydrophobic force, intelligent design, Lawrence J. Henderson, Linus Pauling, metabolism, mitochondria, nitrogen, nucleus, ocean, oxygen, parsimony, primer, The Fitness of the Environment, The Wonder of Water, water}

Supreme Elegance: The Fine-Tuning of the Properties of Matter for Life on Earth

_{Michael Denton
August 6, 2024

Biochemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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In the biochemical domain, nature is indeed, as Isaac Newton rightly claimed, “pleased with simplicity” and abhors “superfluous causes.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 24, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Environment & Climate
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Rare Earth
Tagged
, agnostics, blood, capillaries, cells, Charles Tanford, circulation, criminology, earth, elements, endothermy, evaporation, extraterrestrial intelligence, fitness, fluids, gas, heat, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, hydrophobic force, intelligent design, liquid, microbiology, oxygen, skin, solid, solvents, temperature, The Wonder of Water, tissues, viscosity, water}

In the Case of Water, an Inference to Intelligent Design Is Independent of Any Religious Claim

_{Michael Denton
July 24, 2024

Biochemistry, Environment & Climate, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Rare Earth

15}

In this article I will explain why, as someone who is agnostic about many religious claims, I find the inference to intelligent design impossible to refuse. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
May 24, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, ancient Greeks, anthropocentrism, apes, arms, bonobos, Comparative Biomechanics, dolphins, fire, Galen, Giant Pagan, Giant Pope, hands, Homo floresiensis, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, Judeo-Christian tradition, kinetic energy, knuckle-walkers, orangutan, parrots, Pilgrim’s Progress, quadrupeds, ravens, Richard Owen, seals, secular culture, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Vogel, stone tools, The Miracle of Man, Thomas Huxley}

Man, with His Special Place in Nature, Was Designed to Use Fire

_{Michael Denton
May 24, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Intelligent Design, Technology

17}

Only a special type of being very close to our own biological design could have taken the first and vital step to technological enlightenment, fire-making. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
May 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aerobic life, atmosphere, atmospheric gases, carbon dioxide, Carl Sagan, earth, extraterrestrial life, greenhouse effect, Homo sapiens, infrared radiation, intelligent design, light-eaters, metabolism, NASA, nitrogen, oxygen, ozone, photosynthesis, silicate weathering, sun, sunlight, The Miracle of Man, Venus, visual light, water vapor}

Earth’s Atmosphere Demonstrates Stunning Biocentric Fine-Tuning

_{Michael Denton
May 17, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

15}

For photosynthesis to proceed on a planet like Earth, sunlight (visual light) must penetrate the atmosphere all the way to the ground. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
May 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, ancient Greece, atomism, Bridgewater Treatises, Chance and Necessity, Darwinism, Democritus, evolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Wald, Harold Morowitz, imago Dei, intelligent design, Jacques Monod, Lawrence Henderson, materialism, natural selection, pre-Socratic philosophers, Stephen Jay Gould, Stone Age, The Fitness of the Environment, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, Western civilization}

How We Moved Beyond Darwin to the Miracle of Man

_{Michael Denton
May 11, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

The extraordinary ensembles of natural environmental fitness described in my book are thoroughly documented scientific facts. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
October 14, 2020

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Astrobiology Magazine, boron, carbon, Charles Darwin, earth, elements, fitness, intelligent design, life forms, molecules, purpose, scientific research, silicon, teleology, The Miracle of the Cell, The World of Life}

Excerpt — The Chosen Atom

_{Michael Denton
October 14, 2020

Biochemistry, Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

3}

Many have believed (and many still do believe) that Darwin drove teleology out of biology forever. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
October 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amoeba, bacterial flagellum, bacterium, behaviorism, cytoplasm, E. coli, fitness, Lawrence Henderson, liver cells, molecular biology, Nature (journal), paramecium, protozoans, skin cells, Stentor, The Fitness of the Environment, third infinity}

Excerpt — The Infinite Complexity of Cells

_{Michael Denton
October 2, 2020

Intelligent Design

8}

The unique powers of cells — their “demonic catalytic powers” — and their fitness to play their unique role as the building blocks of all life are a wonder. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 17, 2020

Categories
Biology
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, batteries, carbon-based life, Charles Darwin, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, fitness of nature, Freeman Dyson, intelligent beings, intelligent design, Kepler, magnets, Zeitgeist}

Whatever the Cause, We Are No Accident

_{Michael Denton
August 17, 2020

Biology, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

4}

The unique fitness of nature for carbon-based life and intelligent beings of our biology is an empirical discovery. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 15, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, advanced technology, atmosphere, breathing, carbon, electromagnetic spectrum, embryos, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness of nature, Lawrence Henderson, metabolic energy, oxidation, oxygen, respiration, The Fitness of the Environment, X-ray}

Fire and Fitness: A Summary of the Evidence

_{Michael Denton
August 15, 2020

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physics

3}

Surely there could not be an equivalent ensemble of fitness in nature for some other type of life. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 14, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, axon, central nervous system, heat, humans, intelligent design, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Leon Kass, mammals, muscles, myelin, nerve fibers, pain, sense organs, touch}

A Crucial Design Difference in Vertebrate Nerves

_{Michael Denton
August 14, 2020

Intelligent Design

6}

Consideration of the basic characteristics of nerve impulse propagation suggests that the speed of conduction in mammals is close to the maximum possible. Read More ›