Tag: metallurgy

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 30, 2022

Categories
Botany
Geology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, chaperones, copper, cytochrome C oxidase, enzymes, erosion, fire-making, Illustra Media, intelligent design, lignin, Max Planck Institute, metallurgy, metals, Michael Denton, minerals, PNAS, prior fitness, soil, storksbill, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, zinc}

Copper Reveals Its Role in Exploding Plants — and in the Miracle of Man

_{David Coppedge
June 30, 2022

Botany, Geology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The exploding pods of the popping cress send the plant’s seeds flying in all directions, as far as a meter from the parent. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 16, 2020

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, bonobos, civilization, climate change, culture, David Brooks, Fire-Maker, fires, flying squirrel, grooming, humans, hunting, intelligent design, metallurgy, Michael Denton, New York Times, Pan paniscus, primatology, psychoanalysis, Scott Adams, Wesley J. Smith}

Using Bonobos to Bash Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
September 16, 2020

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology

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As podcaster Scott Adams would say, there is simply no “payday” for these people in recognizing what makes us, as humans, unique. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 12, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, blood, charcoal, circulatory system, Energy, Fire-Maker series, heart, human body, intelligent design, kilns, medical school, metabolic energy, metallurgy, molecular motor, muscles, myosin, oxygen, respiration, respiratory system, strength, wood}

What if Our Muscles Were Less Powerful?

_{Michael Denton
August 12, 2020

Intelligent Design

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As every medical student comes to learn when first dissecting the human body at medical school, our limbs are almost entirely composed of muscles. 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

9}

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

3}

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 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
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

5}

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 24, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Africa, ceramics, charcoal, civilization, computers, earth, fire, Fire-Maker, humans, kilns, lightning, metallurgy, volcanoes}

The Path to Technology Was Built into Nature

_{Michael Denton
July 24, 2020

Intelligent Design

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All these elements of fitness in nature for the development of technology, crucial to mankind’s rise to civilization, long preceded man’s arrival on Earth. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 23, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, ambient temperatures, Arthur Wilson, campfire, charcoal, coal, combustion, determination, Fire-Maker series, genius, inventiveness, iron, kiln, matter, metallurgy, oxygen, smelting, Stone Age, stone tools, technological advance, wood}

Combustion Is Anything but Ordinary

_{Michael Denton
July 23, 2020

Intelligent Design

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The combustion of wood or coal may seem so familiar as to be unworthy of any comment. Read More ›