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Leviathan
Image credit: Gustave Doré, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Slaying Leviathan Conference: John West on C. S. Lewis, Scientocracy, and More

On Saturday in Tacoma, he will also discuss what we can learn about the relationship between faith and politics from American history in the 1800s. Read More ›
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Photo: Stargazers, by David Coppedge.

Intelligent Design and Cosmic Fine-Tuning

In combination, the factors mentioned here and in my last two posts constrain the “cosmic habitable age” to narrower dimensions. Read More ›
Titanosaurus
Photo: Titanosaurus, by Peter E., via Flickr (cropped).

Prior Fitness and Dinosaurs

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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Photo credit: Ochir-Erdene Oyunmedeg via Unsplash.

Biology Helps Us Understand the Blessing of Grasses

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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Photo credit: NPS, Patrick Taylor.

Prior Fitness for Life: The Problem of Boron

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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Photo: Phosfate mine, Republic of Nauru, by Lorrie Graham/AusAID, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Miracle of Man: The Problem of Phosphorus

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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Photo: Richard Owen (left); beside him is the skeleton of a giant moa, by John van Voorst [Public domain].

Denton: Animal Body Types as “Adaptive Masks”

These recurrent forms extend from original “primal patterns,” much as argued by such 19th-century opponents of Darwinism as Richard Owen and Louis Agassiz. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Sam Moghadam Khamseh, via Unsplash.

Denton: The Miracle of Man Rests on a Primal Blueprint

It’s a long list of things, and indeed, a long list of interdependent ensembles of prior fitness. Read More ›
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The Miracle of Man: New Book by Michael Denton

Sputtering nihilists have turned their rage on the idea that someone, somewhere, could be thinking that the unborn man or woman is a miracle worth protecting. Read More ›
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Miracle of the Cell
Image credit: Brian Gage.

Atomic Miracles: On Denton’s Latest

Paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson once declared that “man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.” Read More ›

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