Author: Michael Denton
What the Galápagos Finches Tell Us About Evolution
While Darwin’s finches demonstrate that natural selection can generate small degrees of adaptive change, they also reveal sharp limits to the mechanism.
Aristotle Rediscovered: What Exactly Is the "Mechanism" for Intelligent Design?
Discovery Institute’s Chairman of the Board, Bruce Chapman, asks me how the direction in nature’s evolution was imparted.
A Maze with One Exit: Why Evolution Had No Choice
Our Discovery Institute colleague Bruce Chapman writes to me to ask the following question.
Prometheus Unbound: The Fitness of Nature for Large Trees
One of the critical requirements for sustainable fires, sufficiently hot to smelt metal ores, is wood.
The Cold Trap: How It Works
As water vapor ascends in the atmosphere, it cools and condenses out, forming clouds and rain and snow and falling back to the Earth.