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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 10, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ants, athletes, fire, Fire-Maker series, gravity, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, Mass, muscles, Steven Vogel, terrestrial organisms, vertebrates}

For Fire and More, Humans Are Designed to Have Just the Right Strength

_{Michael Denton
August 10, 2020

Intelligent Design

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How is it that an ant appears proportionately so much stronger than a trained human weight lifter? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 7, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, African Savannah, American Scientist, Aristotle, fire, Fire-Maker series, Giant Pagan, Giant Pope, hands, height, Homo floresiensis, humans, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, kilns, kinetic energy, metallurgy, metals, Pilgrim’s Progress, Richard Wagner, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Vogel}

Remarkably, Humans Are Just the Right Size to Make and Master Fire

_{Michael Denton
August 7, 2020

Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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Only an organism of our dimensions and android design — 1.5 to 2 meters in height with arms about 1 meter-long ending in manipulative tools — can handle fire. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 6, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, advanced technology, charcoal, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, kilns, metallurgy, metals, Stone Age, terrestrial organisms}

How Man Became the Fire-Maker

_{Michael Denton
August 6, 2020

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

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Being terrestrial is one obvious requirement. No fully aquatic species could master fire and thus develop metallurgy. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 5, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, cells, cellulose, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness, Goldilocks, humans, leaves, lignin, metallurgy, parsimony, photosynthesis, surface tension, tensile strength, tree trunks, water, wood}

Nature’s Magic and Its Breathtaking Parsimony

_{Michael Denton
August 5, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Without this ensemble of fitness in nature, there would be no wood, no fire, no metallurgy, no modern technology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 3, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, evaporation, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness, leaves, Maciej A. Zwieniecki, N. Michele Holbrook, pores, Steven Vogel, The Life of a Leaf, viscosity}

The Amazing Circulation System of Trees

_{Michael Denton
August 3, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Clearly, unless water can be drawn several meters up the conduits in their tree trunks, large woody trees would be impossible. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Carboniferous Period, charcoal, evaporative cooling, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, fitness, Goldilocks, iron, lignin, metallurgy, metals, Nature, organic compounds, oxygen, photosynthesis, physiology, plant cells, pottery, radiation, steam engine, trees, wood}

The Role of Lignin for Fire, Explained

_{Michael Denton
August 2, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Without lignin, there would be no woody plants, no wood, no coal, no charcoal, no fire, no pottery, and certainly no iron or metallurgy. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
July 31, 2020

Categories
Astronomy
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, airplanes, computers, cosmic fine-tuning, earth, encyclopedias, evolution, fire, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligent beings, intelligent design, iPhones, James Tour, Jupiter, materialists, metals, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, other worlds, Paul Davies, physical constants, planetary fine-tuning, Rice University, Science Uprising, scientific discovery, self-replicating machine, Stephen Hawking, The Edge of Evolution, The Problems of Physics, water, Why Evolution Is Different}

A “Lush” World Defies Materialist Explanations, as Behe and Denton Confirm

_{Granville Sewell
July 31, 2020

Astronomy, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Physics, Technology

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Conditions on Earth, the laws of physics, are not only fine-tuned for the survival of intelligent beings, they are fine-tuned for the development of technology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 31, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, charcoal, coal, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness of nature, fuel, George Wald, inventiveness, metal, oxygen, photosynthesis, Prometheus, quantum tunneling, smelting, Stephen Pyne, Tim Lenton, wood}

Needed for Fire: All the Right Fuel

_{Michael Denton
July 31, 2020

Intelligent Design, Technology

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There is another aspect of the Earth’s environment that is absolutely crucial in allowing the utilization of fire for metal-based technologies. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 30, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, aluminum, ambient temperatures, copper, ductility, Earth’s crust, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness, gold, iron, lead, machinery, mantle, metallurgy, metals, rocks, silver, steam engine, Stone Age}

In Praise of Copper, a Gift from Nature

_{Michael Denton
July 30, 2020

Intelligent Design

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If the conductivity of copper were ten times less, wires would have to be ten times the cross-sectional area to provide the same conductivity. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 29, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, ambient temperatures, atmosphere, copper, ductility, earth, electrical power, electricity, fire, Fire-Maker series, metals, respiration, steel, tensile strength}

For a Technological Civilization, We Must Have Metals

_{Michael Denton
July 29, 2020

Intelligent Design, Technology

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It is very doubtful that any beings in the universe could develop a civilization remotely comparable with our own without the use of metals. Read More ›