tree and a man Type post Author Michael Denton Date August 5, 2020 CategoriesIntelligent DesignLife Sciences Tagged , cells, cellulose, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness, Goldilocks, humans, leaves, lignin, metallurgy, parsimony, photosynthesis, surface tension, water, wood Nature’s Magic and Its Breathtaking Parsimony Michael Denton August 5, 2020 Intelligent Design, Life Sciences 3 Without this ensemble of fitness in nature, there would be no wood, no fire, no metallurgy, no modern technology. Read More ›
coastal redwoods Type post Author Michael Denton Date August 3, 2020 CategoriesIntelligent DesignLife Sciences Tagged , atmosphere, evaporation, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness, leaves, Steven Vogel, viscosity The Amazing Circulation System of Trees Michael Denton August 3, 2020 Intelligent Design, Life Sciences 5 Clearly, unless water can be drawn several meters up the conduits in their tree trunks, large woody trees would be impossible. Read More ›
gecko-2048x1075 Type post Date May 29, 2020 CategoriesIntelligent DesignLife Sciences Tagged , American Chemical Society, biologists, Biomimetics, biomimicry, butterfly wings, China, coral, Duke University, engineers, geckos, Georgia Tech, intelligent design, Johns Hopkins University, leaf, leaves, materials science, New Scientist, polymers, telescopes Applied Intelligent Design: Engineers Know Engineering When They See It Science & Culture May 29, 2020 Intelligent Design, Life Sciences 9 The adhesive properties of gecko toe pads, based on atomic van der Waals attraction, have been understood for years now. Read More ›
fall leaves Type post Date April 13, 2016 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __cedited, Denton, leaves, Nature, Research, Science Denton’s Challenge: Are Leaf Shapes Adaptive? Science & Culture April 13, 2016 Evolution, Intelligent Design 7 Evolutionary botanists try to give adaptive reasons for the wide variety of leaf shapes that Michael Denton argues challenge Darwinian functionalism. Read More ›
