Tag: prior fitness

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 7, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, agriculturalists, Amazonia, biosphere, Cambrian Explosion, carbon, Charles University, chlorophyll, Goldilocks Zone, Hunga-Tonga volcano, intelligent design, Johannes Gutenberg, Michael Denton, Nature (journal), Nature Scientific Reports, nitrogen, oxygen theory, Paleozoic, phosphorus, phytoplankton, prior fitness, supply chain, vertebrates, volcanoes}

Is There Enough Phosphorus for Us?

_{David Coppedge
September 7, 2022

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

10}

The element phosphorus, on which life heavily depends for its codes and metabolic processes, is a limiting factor for complex beings on habitable planets. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Energy, fear, heart, human life, humans, intelligent design, invention, light, medicine, metaphor, Michael Denton, oxygen, predators, prior fitness, red blood cells, The Miracle of Man, transition metals, water}

Michael Denton Explains the Miracle of Your Heart

_{David Klinghoffer
August 17, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

3}

There is more that most people – probably most scientists – have never even considered, and that seals the case for the heart’s intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 17, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, artistry, biophysicists, bones, dinosaurs, earth, elephant, engineers, gravity, Mass, Michael Denton, natural selection, physical laws, prior fitness, Privileged Species, quadrupeds, sauropods, Science Advances, The Miracle of Man, Ultrasaurus, University of Queensland, weight}

Prior Fitness and Dinosaurs

_{David Coppedge
August 17, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

7}

Michael Denton has shown that humans must be the right size to use fire and create technology. What about size limits on big animals? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 10, 2022

Categories
Life Sciences
Science
Tagged
, angiosperms, biosphere, carbon, copper, dairy products, earthworms, eggs, erosion, flowering plants, grass, grasses, grasslands, intelligent design, iron, magnesium, maize, meat, metalloenzymes, Michael Denton, moles, monocots, prior fitness, Privileged Species, Science (journal), zinc}

Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses

_{David Coppedge
August 10, 2022

Life Sciences, Science

7}

Don’t walk on the grass, that “often undervalued” form of life, without looking down. It’s amazing down there. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 5, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, asteroid, Big Bang, Big Think, biosphere, Cambrian Explosion, complex life, cosmos, Dartmouth College, dinosaurs, Ernst Mayr, fire, Günter Bechly, humans, intelligent design, life, Marcelo Gleiser, Michael Denton, prior fitness, providence, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, teleology, The Miracle of Man, Theistic Evolution (book), Thomas Huxley}

Recognizing Providence in the History of Life Is a Hint About Our Own Lives

_{David Klinghoffer
August 5, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Technology

5}

Any of us can point to certain pivotal events in our past that need not have occurred, but did. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 1, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, boron, bromine, ceramics, charcoal, copper, diamond, fertilizer, Geophysical Research Letters, glass, Guillermo Gonzalez, iron, Jay Richards, magnesium, metalloenzymes, Mojave Desert, Periodic Table, plate tectonics, prior fitness, Privileged Species, semiconductors, SpaceX, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, The Privileged Planet, Turkey}

Prior Fitness for Life: The Problem of Boron

_{David Coppedge
August 1, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

10}

The atomic element boron is essential for life, but how do you get it from stars to plants and animals? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, adenosine triphosphate, astrobiologists, atmosphere, ATP, China, coincidences, crust, Current Biology, earth, Energy, enzymes, fertilizer, food shortages, Japan, Leviticus, metals, Michael Denton, mitochondria, molecular machines, Morocco, New Scientist, nitrogen, nuts, Peru, phosphates, phosphorus, phosphorylation, potassium, poultry, prior fitness, Privileged Species, Russia, seafood, soil, The Miracle of Man, theropod, Ukraine, Ultrasaurus, University of Washington}

Miracle of Man: The Problem of Phosphorus

_{David Coppedge
July 6, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

10}

To complete the argument for prior fitness of the elements for our Privileged Species, we must deal with the availability of another essential element. Read More ›

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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

9}

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 Coppedge

Date
June 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, Andreas Vesalius, carbon dioxide, Casey Luskin, Cell (journal), Charles Darwin, elements, fruit, intelligent design, leaves, meat, metals, Michael Denton, Middle Ages, Nicolaus Copernicus, Plants (journal), poultry, primal blueprint, prior fitness, proteins, seafood, seeds, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, Vanderbilt University, water cycle, zinc}

Zinc and the Miracle of Man

_{David Coppedge
June 14, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Technology

10}

Elemental zinc pulls together multiple themes that biologist Michael Denton writes about in his new book. Read More ›

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Date
May 12, 2022

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, bipedalism, carbon, earth, Henry F. (Fritz) Schaefer, ID the Future, intelligent design, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, podcast, prior fitness, sun, The Miracle of Man, transition metals, University of Georgia, water}

Miracle of Man: Denton’s Prior Fitness Argument

_{Science and Culture
May 12, 2022

Biology, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Technology

1}

One or two examples are interesting. But where the argument gains dramatic force is in the accumulation of many examples. Read More ›