Michael Denton’s Fitness Argument in a Nutshell

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Biochemist Michael Denton was a featured speaker at the 2023 Westminster Conference, speaking on the topic of his latest book, The Miracle of Man. To mark the occasion, we bring you this classic episode of ID the Future from the archive. Here, Denton discusses with host Casey Luskin the various ways the universe is uniquely fit for carbon-based life, and perhaps even human life. Denton argues that when it comes to evidence of fine-tuning in the universe, the more you look, the more you find. "The design inference is something the individual must make on this evidence," he says. "The evidence is pretty extraordinary..the actual science shows that it's fit, uniquely fit, for beings like ourselves." Tune in to discover what he has found that has led him to the inference that our world is intelligently designed.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to ID the Future. I'm Casey Wesk in Broadcasting with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture in Seattle, Washington.
0:15.5	We're very privileged to have on the show today with us Dr. Michael Denton,
0:20.0	Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, who has had a critical impact
0:24.8	on the debate over Darwinian evolution and intelligent design.
0:28.8	Dr Denton holds an MD from Bristol University, as well as a PhD in biochemistry from Kings College in London.
0:36.0	His prominent book Evolution of Theory in Crisis coined the phrase that evolution is A Theory
0:40.6	in Crisis and is credited with having inspired both Philip Johnson and Michael Bihy
0:45.3	to investigate scientific problems with Darwinian theory.
0:48.5	His 1998 sequel, Nature's Destiny, how the laws of biology reveal purpose in the universe, elaborates on the evidence
0:55.4	for design and nature, showing that the laws of the universe are finely tuned not only for
0:59.6	the existence of carbon-based life, but also for complex beings very close to modern humans.
1:05.2	And that's part of what we're going to talk about today.
1:07.6	So Dr. Denton, it's great to have you on the show with us.
1:10.3	It's a pleasure to be here.
1:11.5	We've been privileged to have you here over the weekend,
1:13.7	speaking at our annual conference,
1:15.6	and you just gave a wonderful talk on Saturday morning
1:18.2	about how the universe is specifically designed,
1:20.2	not just for life, but perhaps even for carbon-based life and even human life.
1:25.0	And also how there are many parameters of the Earth which make it fit for life.
1:29.0	So I'd like to talk with you about that today,
1:31.0	and maybe we could start off specifically talking about
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