Biochemist Michael Denton on Nature’s Fitness for Life

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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On this episode of ID the Future from the vault, biochemist and author Michael Denton and host Eric Anderson conclude their conversation about Denton's book The Miracle of the Cell, and about his epiphany of the many remarkable ways that nature’s chemistry is fine-tuned for life. This is Part 2 of a two-part conversation. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to ID the Future, a podcast about intelligent design and evolution. Hello, I'm Eric Anderson, and on today's episode of ID the future, I'm pleased to be joined again by Dr.
0:19.5	Michael Denton.
0:21.0	Dr. Denton is author of groundbreaking books including Evolution, A Theory and Crisis, and Nature's
0:25.9	Destiny. Today we're back to continue discussing his latest book in the Privileged Species
0:30.8	series The Miracle of the Cell.
0:32.6	Welcome back, Mike.
0:33.9	Great to be back again, actually, Eric.
0:35.8	I guess one of the silver linings of the current crisis
0:38.6	is that we've got you captive working from home in Australia
0:41.4	with nowhere to go.
0:42.2	So if our listeners are like me,
0:44.6	we'd love to just hear you talk for hours
0:46.4	about this fantastic new book.
0:48.6	Well, I can talk for quite a long time.
0:51.4	I don't know what hours but yes.
0:54.0	We won't keep you quite that long but I am looking forward to jumping into a few more details
0:59.2	in this second conversation so thanks for being with us.
1:02.0	We ended our last conversation talking about the
1:05.3	remarkable fitness of the elements for life and also about complexity and the fact that
1:10.4	we keep uncovering layer after layer of complexity. Some critics might argue
1:14.8	that there's nothing special about complexity. After all, the asteroids crash in and jostling
1:19.7	into each other in the asteroid belt might be viewed as a complex system of pieces and particles
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