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Miracle of the Cell
Miracle of the Cell
Image credit: Brian Gage.

Michael Denton Explores the “Third Infinity”

The diversity of cells — their variety of form, function, and locomotion — is beyond describing, with some cells almost seeming sentient, indeed ingenious. Read More ›
Miracle of the Cell
Miracle of the Cell
Image credit: Brian Gage.

Denton “Takes the Fine-Tuning Argument to a Whole New Level”

Given a "primal blueprint" that preceded the first life, the solution can only be intelligent design. Read More ›
Miracle of the Cell
Miracle of the Cell
Image credit: Brian Gage.

Eberlin: “Michael Denton Has Again Sent the Opponents of Cosmic Purpose Scurrying”

"Here we are confronted with definitive findings in favor of a powerful genius who foresaw and precisely orchestrated chemistry as a whole for life." Read More ›
Miracle of the Cell
Miracle of the Cell
Image credit: Brian Gage.

Behe on Denton’s Latest: “The Universe Miraculously Got [It] Right”

"Michael Denton is the world’s most profound thinker about the physical and chemical requirements for the existence of a humanoid species like ourselves." Read More ›
Miracle of the Cell
Miracle of the Cell
Image credit: Brian Gage.

New Book by Biologist Michael Denton on Nature’s Miraculous “Primal Blueprint”

To see cells in action, he notes a remarkable video, “Neutrophil Chasing Bacteria,” made in 1950s by a researcher at Vanderbilt University. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
Photo: Stephen Meyer, a screenshot from "The Science & Faith Podcast - James Tour and Stephen Meyer: Life's Origin: Lab + Information = Mind."

Tour, Meyer: The Mystery of Life Itself

As Stephen Meyer puts it here, “When life leaves, we don’t exactly know what’s left, but we know something left and it’s not just the physical.” Read More ›
United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket
Image: United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, by NASA/Joel Kowsky.

Whatever the Cause, We Are No Accident

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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Photo credit: US Navy Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Sara Eshleman, via Wikimedia Commons.

What Intelligent Design Research on COVID-19 Would Look Like

Is there evidence for intelligent human agency in COVID-19, given its structure and what is known about its emergence? Read More ›
Bayes'-Theorem
Photo: Bayes' Theorem, by mattbuck (category) / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0).

A Bayesian Approach to Intelligent Design

I have come to think of evidence in Bayesian terms and this has in turn impacted the way I think about the biological arguments for ID. Read More ›
Michael Denton

Michael Denton and Intelligent Design’s Big Tent

People who cannot agree on the details of a single theology, or any theology at all, do agree that nature gives an “overwhelming impression” (in Denton’s words) of design. Read More ›

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