Hello and welcome to ID the Future.

I'm Casey Leskin, Broadcasting with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture in Seattle, Washington.

We're very privileged to have on the show today with us, Dr. Michael Denton, Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, who has had a critical impact on the debate over Darwinian evolution and intelligent design.

Dr. Denton holds an MD from Bristol University as well as a PhD in biochemistry from King's College in London.

His prominent book, Evolution of Theory and Crisis, coined the phrase

that evolution is a theory in crisis and is credited with having inspired both Philip Johnson

and Michael Behe to investigate scientific problems with Darwinian theory. His 1998 sequel, Nature's

Destiny, How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe, elaborates on the evidence for design in nature, showing that the laws of biology reveal purpose in the universe, elaborates on the

evidence for design in nature, showing that the laws of the universe are finally tuned not only for

the existence of carbon-based life, but also for complex beings very close to modern humans.

And that's part of what we're going to talk about today.

So Dr. Denton, it's great to have you on the show with us.

It's a pleasure to be here. We've been privileged to have you here over the weekend, speaking at our annual conference, and you just gave a wonderful talk on Saturday morning about how the universe is specifically designed, not just for life, but perhaps even for carbon-based life and even human life, and also how there are many parameters of the Earth which make it fit

for life.

So I'd like to talk with you about that today, and maybe we could start off specifically

talking about how the biosphere is designed for human life.

Well, basically, just to go back on something we've said, the evidence of science is that

the universe is fit for carbon-based life life and as I've argued in my book,

fit for beings of biology very similar to ourselves.

So this is a purely scientific sort of thing.

The universe looks as if it's fit uniquely for carbon-based life and beings like ourselves.

The design inference is something that the individual must make on this evidence.

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