Tag: Michael Denton
Francis Collins’s The Language of God 15 Years On
Collins refers to the “backward wiring” of the vertebrate eye, characterizing it as flawed from an engineering perspective.
Cosmos, Chaos, and a Privileged Address in the Universe
What are we to make of this radical discontinuity between the Earth and the rest of the cosmos?
Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race: A Study in Contrasts
Darwin was unquestionably a racist, arguing that civilization would advance even at the cost of inevitable racial extermination.
Living Murals: Wall Art Made by Photosynthetic Bacteria
Long suspected to be biological in origin, desert varnish is confirmed to be the product of light-gathering microbes that concentrate manganese as sunscreen.
Study: Planets Capable of Sustaining Photosynthesis Are Extremely Rare
So how did the paper determine that photosynthesis has an “overall simplicity,” despite the complexity just described?