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Zinc and the Miracle of Man

Elemental zinc pulls together multiple themes that biologist Michael Denton writes about in his new book. Read More ›
The Miracle of Man
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The Miracle of Man: Extraordinary “Coincidences” All the Way Down

The fine tuning, what Denton calls anthropic prior fitness, would seem to require foresight and planning on literally a cosmic scale. Read More ›
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Denton: The Miracle of Man Rests on a Primal Blueprint

It’s a long list of things, and indeed, a long list of interdependent ensembles of prior fitness. Read More ›
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2022 YouTube Film Festival: Fire-Maker

Think of it: from computers to airplanes to life-giving medicines, the technological marvels of our world were made possible by this human use of fire. Read More ›
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Man, with His Special Place in Nature, Was Designed to Use Fire

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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Denton: Return of the Man Hypothesis

Scientific discoveries have revitalized the outlook that placed man at the center of the cosmos, not in a physical but in a metaphysical sense. Read More ›
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Miracle of Man: Denton’s Prior Fitness Argument

One or two examples are interesting. But where the argument gains dramatic force is in the accumulation of many examples. Read More ›
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For Navigating Animals, a Gift from Magnetotactic Bacteria

Nowhere do these scientists explain how bacteria invented magnetotaxis and encoded it into their genes. Read More ›
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Frankenstein and His Offspring

"Abiogenesis" seems to draw its strength from pseudo-scientific folk-beliefs that life could somehow be made to emerge from non-life. Read More ›
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genetic engineering
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Wesley J. Smith on Nature Article about Alarming Gene Editing

Using the breakthrough technology known as CRISPR, scientists are not only altering the genes of a given creature. Read More ›

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