Tag: periodic table of elements

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Dominic Halsmer

Date
June 7, 2021

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affordance, Affordance Based Design, biology, biomimicry, Dominic Halsmer, ecological psychology, engineering, fine tuning, God hypothesis, Hacking the Cosmos, Intelligent Design, Jonathan Maier, Legos of life, Natural Theology, Oral Roberts University, periodic table of elements, planetary fine tuning, Purdue University, purpose, reverse engineering, systems biology, UCLA}

An Engineer Talks ID, Biomimicry, and Hacking the Cosmos

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June 7, 2021

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On today’s ID the Future, host Casey Luskin sits down with Dominic Halsmer, a Senior Professor of Engineering at Oral Roberts University, to discuss Halsmer’s recent book, Hacking the Cosmos: How Reverse Engineering Uncovers Organization, Ingenuity and the Care of a Maker. Dr. Halsmer draws on the engineering concept of affordances to explore how Earth and the universe show evidence of having been intelligently engineered to afford the possibility of life, and even for humans to discover evidence of a grand designer. Also in the conversation, the implications of biologists using reverse engineering to better understand biological systems, and of engineers studying clever designs in the biological realm to make engineering breakthroughs, a creative strategy known as biomimicry.

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Michael Denton

Date
October 12, 2020

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DNA, erythrocytes, Evolution: a Theory in Crisis, fine-tuning, infinity, Nature’s Destiny, periodic table of elements, Privileged Species, quantum tunneling, red blood cells, RNA}

Michael Denton Discusses The Miracle of the Cell

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October 12, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Eric Anderson speaks with biochemist Michael Denton about Denton’s new book The Miracle of the Cell, part of his continuing Privileged Species series exploring nature’s fine tuning for life. New research keeps unveiling ever more ways in which this fine tuning exists, from the cosmos to the atoms of the periodic table, even to the subatomic level of quantum tunneling. As for the cell itself, It is as if scientists are discovering a “third infinity,” says Denton.

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Michael Denton

Date
September 30, 2020

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__edited, amoeba, cell, elements of life, fine-tuning, fitness paradigm, Intelligent Design, Jacques Monod, Michael Denton, origin of life, periodic table of elements, primal blueprint, prior fitness, Privileged Species, protozoa, single-cell organism, The Miracle of the Cell}

A Reading from Michael Denton’s New Book, The Miracle of the Cell

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September 30, 2020

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On this episode of ID the Future, Andrew McDiarmid reads an excerpt from the new book The Miracle of the Cell by Michael Denton. Denton, a biochemist from Perth, Australia, and senior fellow of Discover Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, introduces the wonders of the cell as “the universal constructor set of life.” The diversity of cells — their variety of form, function, and locomotion — is beyond describing, with some cells almost seeming sentient, even ingenious. As Denton notes, our growing knowledge of the cell’s staggering sophistication has provoked the name “the third infinity.” And this quick flyby of the cell is just an excerpt from the book’s introductory chapter. There Denton lays the groundwork for the book’s deeper dive into the extraordinary fine tuning of the chemical elements of life, a prior fitness that, according to Denton, points not only to intelligent design but to “a primal blueprint.”