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Date
December 23, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Antarctica, calcium, cobalt, enzymes, Flight: The Genius of Birds, Freeman Dyson, Geophysical Research Letters, glaciers, Greenland, ice, Illustra Media, iron, krill, magnesium, manganese, materialists, metals, Michael Denton, molybdenum, PNAS, potassium, Privileged Species, rivers, sodium, The Wonder of Water, vitamin B12}

Glaciers Enhance the Biosphere — By Design

_{Science & Culture
December 23, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Glacial meltwater performs unexpected and surprising roles that benefit life on earth. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
October 28, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, Apple iPhones, Big Bang, children, computers, consciousness, designer, earth, Energy, evolution, fire, Fire-Maker, First Cause, intelligent design, materialists, matter, metals, Michael Denton, multiverse, Paul Davies, physical laws, Robin Collins, science fiction, Science Uprising, scientific discovery, self-replicating machine, Stephen Hawking, water, Why Evolution Is Different}

Top Six Evidences for Intelligent Design

_{Granville Sewell
October 28, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

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Here is a modest attempt to summarize the main scientific evidences for design in our world, for those who have been told that such evidence does not exist. 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, hands, Homo floresiensis, humans, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, kilns, kinetic energy, metallurgy, metals, 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
, charcoal, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, kilns, metallurgy, metals, Stone Age}

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 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Carboniferous Period, charcoal, fire, Fire-Maker series, fire-making, fitness, Goldilocks, iron, lignin, metallurgy, metals, Nature, oxygen, photosynthesis, physiology, 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, Paul Davies, physical constants, planetary fine-tuning, Rice University, Science Uprising, scientific discovery, self-replicating machine, Stephen Hawking, The Edge of Evolution, 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 30, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, ambient temperatures, copper, Earth’s crust, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness, gold, iron, machinery, mantle, metallurgy, metals, rocks, 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, earth, electricity, fire, Fire-Maker series, metals, respiration, steel}

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 ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 25, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, atmosphere, civilization, combustion, earth, fire, Fire-Maker series, gases, gravity, mankind, metabolism, metals, Mount Everest, NASA, nitrogen, oxygen, respiration, Stone Age}

By Design, Earth Is a Planet Fit for Fire

_{Michael Denton
July 25, 2020

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

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As we have seen so far in this series, fire was an absolutely crucial component in humanity’s rise to civilization and technology. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
July 22, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, airplanes, ceramics, copper, fire, Fire-Maker series, Industrial Revolution, iron, Iron Age, machines, metallurgy, metals, microscopes, smelting, telescopes, tools, World War II}

For Mankind, the Leap from Copper to Iron Was a Landmark Advance

_{Michael Denton
July 22, 2020

Chemistry, Intelligent Design

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The importance of metals, particularly iron, and the importance of the discovery of metallurgy can hardly be exaggerated. Read More ›