From Galaxies to Atoms, a Vast Web of Fitness for Life

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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On this episode of ID the Future from the archive, host Eric Anderson begins a conversation with biochemist Michael Denton about Denton’s 2020 book The Miracle of the Cell, part of his continuing Privileged Species series exploring nature’s fine tuning for life. New research keeps unveiling ever more ways in which this fine tuning exists, from the cosmos to the atoms of the periodic table, and even to the subatomic level of quantum tunneling. Says Denton: "The miracle of the cell completes the overall fitness paradigm that unites galaxies with atoms in a vast web of fitness for life." This is Part 1 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.
0:18.0	Hello, I'm Eric Anderson, and today on this episode of ID The Future, I'm pleased to be joined by Dr. Michael Denton for our first of multiple interviews about his new book, The Miracle of the Cell.
0:25.0	Dr Denton holds an MD from Bristol University and a PhD in biochemistry from King's College in London.
0:31.0	His previous books include Evolution,
0:33.7	Etherian Crisis, and Nature's Destiny,
0:36.6	how the laws of biology reveal purpose in the universe.
0:40.0	His work has been published in Nature, Nature Genetics, Biosystems, Human Genetics, and Biology and Philosophy.
0:48.0	Joining us all the way from Perth, Australia, welcome Mike.
0:51.0	Thank you, Eric, it's a pleasure to be here.
0:54.8	As we begin, I think it would be remiss if I didn't mention that your book Evolution of Theory
0:59.4	and Crisis is one of the classic works that really sparked a revolution in this area.
1:03.8	As you dared to question the prevailing thinking at the time and considered the possibility
1:07.4	that something more fundamental was going on in biology than just a mindless, random,
1:11.9	purposeless process.
1:13.0	That was in 1985, I believe,
1:15.0	and then you followed it up in 1998
1:17.0	with Nature's Destiny,
1:19.0	and now this new series, Privileged Species.
1:22.0	That's been quite a journey for more than 30 years.
1:24.1	It certainly has, Eric actually, but it's actually closer to 50 years.
1:28.7	Okay.
1:30.7	Yeah, my skepticism by Darwinism began many years ago while I was studying the development of the red blood cell for my PhD at Kings in London in the late 60s early 70s and what I realized as I was working on the red
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