Tag: The Fitness of the Environment

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Biochemistry
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biosphere, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbon-based life, Charles Tanford, ecosystem, electronegativity, elegance, Freeman Dyson, George Wald, glaciers, heat, hydrogen, hydrological cycle, hydrophobic force, intelligent design, Lawrence J. Henderson, Linus Pauling, metabolism, mitochondria, nitrogen, nucleus, ocean, oxygen, parsimony, primer, The Fitness of the Environment, The Wonder of Water, water}

Supreme Elegance: The Fine-Tuning of the Properties of Matter for Life on Earth

_{Michael Denton
August 6, 2024

Biochemistry, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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In the biochemical domain, nature is indeed, as Isaac Newton rightly claimed, “pleased with simplicity” and abhors “superfluous causes.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
May 11, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, ancient Greece, atomism, Bridgewater Treatises, Chance and Necessity, Darwinism, Democritus, evolution, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Wald, Harold Morowitz, imago Dei, intelligent design, Jacques Monod, Lawrence Henderson, materialism, natural selection, pre-Socratic philosophers, Stephen Jay Gould, Stone Age, The Fitness of the Environment, The Miracle of Man, The Miracle of the Cell, Western civilization}

How We Moved Beyond Darwin to the Miracle of Man

_{Michael Denton
May 11, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The extraordinary ensembles of natural environmental fitness described in my book are thoroughly documented scientific facts. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 28, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atoms, Big Bang, biological information, Cambrian Explosion, creation, Daniel Reeves, Darwin's Doubt, David Berlinski, DNA, elements, Eric Anderson, evolutionary theory, evolutionists, fitness, Harvard University, intelligent design, Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, Michael Denton, Paris, Periodic Table, Privileged Species, Signature in the Cell, textbooks, The Fitness of the Environment, The Miracle of the Cell, webinar, Zoom}

Message in Matter: Intelligent Design in the Atoms

_{David Klinghoffer
October 28, 2020

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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What atheists and materialists can’t explain is why this fitness is so special, so unforgivingly precise and intricate, at every stage on the journey to us. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
October 2, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amoeba, bacterial flagellum, bacterium, behaviorism, cytoplasm, E. coli, fitness, Lawrence Henderson, liver cells, molecular biology, Nature (journal), paramecium, protozoans, skin cells, Stentor, The Fitness of the Environment, third infinity}

Excerpt — The Infinite Complexity of Cells

_{Michael Denton
October 2, 2020

Intelligent Design

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The unique powers of cells — their “demonic catalytic powers” — and their fitness to play their unique role as the building blocks of all life are a wonder. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 15, 2020

Categories
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, advanced technology, atmosphere, breathing, carbon, electromagnetic spectrum, embryos, fire, Fire-Maker series, fitness of nature, Lawrence Henderson, metabolic energy, oxidation, oxygen, respiration, The Fitness of the Environment, X-ray}

Fire and Fitness: A Summary of the Evidence

_{Michael Denton
August 15, 2020

Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Physics

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Surely there could not be an equivalent ensemble of fitness in nature for some other type of life. Read More ›

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Date
November 30, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Circumstellar Habitable Zone, intelligent design, John Barrow, Lawrence J. Henderson, Man’s Place in the Universe, Michael Denton, NASA, Simon Conway Morris, The Fitness of the Environment, The Wonder of Water, water, William Whewell}

Water — One of the Oldest Design Arguments

_{Science and Culture
November 30, 2017

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Today scientists marvel at the many associations among water chemistry, the environment, and life. Read More ›