In the latest episode of Secrets of the Human Body series, “Nature’s Fitness for the Human Body,” biologist Michael Denton takes a long view — the longest view imaginable in our universe. Against the scenic natural backdrops of his native Australia, Dr. Denton explains the startling properties of oxygen, water, and light, designed for creatures like us.
More than that, these properties would need to have been planned by a purposeful intelligence at the very beginning. Says Denton,
It’s just as if in fact our biology, our physiology, was envisaged at the very moment of creation itself. Long before there was our galaxy, right at the very dawn of time, an intelligence had fiddled, to quote Fred Hoyle, with the laws of physics and chemistry and the properties of matter, with advanced life like us in view.
Denton is a wonderful scientist and personality with a key message affirming of human life’s centrality in the plan of the cosmos. Watch:
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Photo by Casey Sernaqué David KlinghofferSenior Fellow and Editor, Science and Culture TodayDavid Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He is the author of seven books including Plato’s Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome and The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy. A former senior editor at National Review, he has contributed to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He received an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University in 1987. Born in Santa Monica, CA, he lives on Mercer Island, WA.Follow DavidProfile
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