The Fitness of Nature for Mankind featuring Biologist Michael Denton

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Renowned author and biologist Michael Denton gives a new expression to what he calls the “medieval synthesis” of knowledge about life, now enjoying a “Reconquista” thanks to modern science. In charming and lyrical yet rigorous fashion, Denton reviews the intelligent design evidence detailed in his books, including the most recent, The Miracle of the Cell. Join him as he explores the myriad of ways nature is fit not just for life, but for human life. Denton is author of the new book "The Miracle of the Cell" (2020) as well as many other books such as "Nature's Destiny," "Fire-Maker," "The Wonder of Water," and "Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis." You will never think of nature in the same way after you watch this presentation!
Dr. Denton's new book The Miracle of the Cell [www.discovery.org/store/produ...] provides compelling evidence that long before life emerged on our planet, the design of the carbon-based cell was foreshadowed in the order of nature, in the exquisite fitness of the laws of nature for this foundational unit of all life on Earth. Nowhere is this fitness more apparent than in the properties of the key atomic constituents of the cell. Each of the atoms of life - including carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, as well as several metal elements - features a suite of unique properties fine-tuned to serve highly specific, indispensable roles in the cell. Moreover, some of these properties are specifically fit for essential roles in the cells of advanced aerobic organisms like ourselves. Author Michael Denton is a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. He holds an MD from Bristol University and a PhD in biochemistry from King’s College in London. His previous books include Evolution: A Theory in Crisis and Nature’s Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe. He has published his work in Nature, Nature Genetics, BioSystems, Human Genetics, and Biology and Philosophy.
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@ematsjca 3 жыл бұрын

Survival of the fittest is a mere tautology. The fitness of survival, on the other hand, is a profound discovery.

@ellipticalequinox6869 3 жыл бұрын

Discovery science is quite the channel!

@jacekstacher6347 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to have grandpa like him ...so much to talk about so much to learn .

@jasonvance4801 9 ай бұрын

He has written many books and has other videos on KZfaq. He can be everyone’s grandpa.

@jimborowy8160 3 жыл бұрын

This is an awesome video! May truth be on the forefront of science again!

@andrewbfrost7021 3 жыл бұрын

I hope that you are putting all of these things into one book that summarizes them all and makes them all accessible and understandable to the typical person. Thank you for the talk.

@scottrobertson6949 3 жыл бұрын

It's the first time I've heard in such detail the symbiotic aspects of our world and our relationship to it. Beautifully delivered. Thankyou Michael .

@phexcell 3 жыл бұрын

It's hard to argue with his conclusion.

@thegreatbehoover788 2 жыл бұрын

Its IMPOSSIBLE to use LOGIC AND REASON to argue against his work. But silly atheists/naturalists aren't using LOGIC and OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE...they use EMOTIONALLY BIASED FAITH STATEMENTS. Sad for our SCIENCE departments.

@leavingloserland2967 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Michael, for gushing over the wondrous miracle of the creation. And for giving due credit to the Creator and Lord of the Universe. It never ceases to amaze me how when God accomplished the organization of the heavens and the earth on our planet, he said ultra-modestly that it was "good". His perfect humility will yet save us from ourselves and from the pride of the devil.

@izziebon 3 жыл бұрын

I noticed that Denton put figurative quote marks around the word “nature“ as he was talking. This indicates he recognises there is another better NAME for that ‘intelligent agent’ and ‘designer’. That designer has told us his Name, which has a very relevant meaning, and also told us his purpose for the Earth… expanding a tiny original sample paradise garden into a global restored paradise.

@thegreatbehoover788 2 жыл бұрын

The word nature is ALWAYS personified by naturalists to represent an INTELLIGENT being capable of CONVENIENTLY "SELECTING" the "right" choice at each imortant crossroad for creating better life. The REALITY is that the word "nature" is simply a word that is used to describe that which man didn't cause...it is NOT A CAUSE in and of itself...nor does it have any physical abilities to change anything. A description is not a physical THING. Nature is a descriptor. It is yet another word hijacked by people selling a false narrative.

@warrenrae32 11 ай бұрын

@@thegreatbehoover788the fact is though that there are too many ‘right choices’ involved for mere coincidence to be behind it. So rather than forcing a false narrative by hijacking the usage of the word nature, intellectual honesty surely should allow us to acknowledge that there are too many just right coincidences for it to be just coincidence but rather intelligent design produced by an intelligent cause. Seeing as there is evidence of such intelligent design everywhere we look in the cosmos it points logically to an intelligent Cause responsible for and therefore outside of the Cosmos.

@Woodtyper 3 жыл бұрын

Compelling. Well done.

@mikeerickson287 3 жыл бұрын

Well done! You have provided a talk that rightly gives credit to the Intelligent Designer - God!

@sanderossi8013 3 жыл бұрын

This is an absolute gem!

@leavingloserland2967 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Dr Denton. God bless you and everyone associated with the organization for working tirelessly to re-establish the original premise that "In the beginning" the Universal Law Giver, the Judeo-Christian God, established our cosmos by design, through the application and rule of law- for the supreme benefit of mankind.

@johngriffin6481 3 жыл бұрын

Insightful presentation Michael, thank you for uploading it. When it comes to explaining why most of us believe in a creator (which can't be directly proven), this channel is one of the best. No "God of the gaps" arguments here, just reason and observation. May God bless you all.

@Xgolfer11 3 жыл бұрын

This lecture as well as the new book (The Miracle of the Cell - Denton) helps validate Rom 1:20, “Romans 1:20 (ASV): For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.” My hat is off to the Discovery Institute as they continue to develop and promulgate Intelligent Design and how it points to a very intelligent creator of our world to host our existence. It’s sad that evolutionists don’t see it. After hearing and reading Denton et al, I marvel at how they can’t/wont grasp what is plainly in front of them. As a trained scientist, engineer, and theologian, I’m realizing we have in front of us the best show in town.

@thegreatbehoover788 2 жыл бұрын

The Naturalists/atheists as I once was, are emotionally committed to a Godless universe...not OBSERVATIONAL SCIENCE. It isn't about TRUTH for them. It is strictly about "Not God"! They'd BELIEVE anything that supports their delusions.

@minimum20mins 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this excellent presentation. Praise be to God.

@peterturner7689 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Michael, for such a profound comment to add to the fine tuning of the universe. Brilliantly explained

@FRN2013 3 жыл бұрын

Yet the anti-theists still insist: "Billions of years ago, nothing exploded for no reason. This explosion created the orderly, incredibly fine-tuned universe we live in."

@ellipticalequinox6869 3 жыл бұрын

I found a video of an evolution of saying "life first sprouted in a primordial soup 350 billion years ago" 😂😂 the universe isn't even that old bro 😂

@tokorozawamegumikyokai259 3 жыл бұрын

And they ridicule us for having "faith". Take the log out of your own eye before you criticize others for the stick in theirs! Just look at the evidence and see where it points.

@iUmarFarooqi 3 жыл бұрын

All this for nothing. By nothing. Do we even exist? I think no.

@alexiavandercruyssen1354 3 жыл бұрын

Avant lé 6iig 6ang il y avait qvélqvé chosé qvi l'a provoqvé

@grayarcana 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but Nothing had to keep trying to do nothing for uncountable trillions of times before it came up with nothing of consequence. Never forget your consciousness of the absurdity of the Anti-theistic view is merely illusion, though I cannot help but be conscious that those who profess the illusoriness of consciousness take unduly good care of themselves, given their profession.

@Campbellteaching 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent lecture, thank you

@martyfromnebraska1045 Жыл бұрын

Neat to see you here.

@chyfields 3 жыл бұрын

I don't this it is coincidental that humanity, out of all Earthly species, has the greatest awareness of sanitation and environmental health.

@flamingswordapologetics 3 жыл бұрын

Very good, undeniable evidence for God.

@Mr_J_Brown 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome lecture

@timothylosee8831 3 жыл бұрын

God said it was very good - l love the humility of truth, of him!!!

@elleg.2177 3 жыл бұрын

“I will give thanks to You, because I am awesomely and wonderfully made; Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it very well.” Psalm 139:14

@8028rsj 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic. So humbling. So well put together I want to share this with the world. I suddenly feel the need to go to Confession and embarrassingly confess my sins. He made this all for us.

@umvhu 3 жыл бұрын

Fire, it's most important benefit is to cook food. Uncooked items are mostly more difficult to digest, so fire increases our bodie's ability to convert food to fuel, making up for some of the limitations of our digestive tract.

@mikhan5191 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant talk - thanks.

@zgobermn6895 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic talk!

@StiloNautica 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@dro8031 Жыл бұрын

What absolutely wonderful conversation. Bravo 👏

@PassionforWoodworking 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent! His conclusion of science's destiny is powerful.

@Romailjohn 3 жыл бұрын

Great view

@sparrow5407 3 жыл бұрын

Wow...... Praise God!!

@urso3000 3 жыл бұрын

Perfect, I love it’s, thanks for sharing!

@lucasperez2020 3 жыл бұрын

Love this

@astrazenica7783 3 жыл бұрын

Trees as perfect building materials

@rodrigopennafirme Ай бұрын

Amazing!

@ConservativeAnthem Жыл бұрын

I read his book in 1981!

@leawilliams8476 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@andrewthomas6312 2 ай бұрын

William Provine said Intelligent Design is boring (In Ben Stein's movie ) It's a pity he didn't get to watch videos like this which - showing the marvelous design of everything we see!

@Im_No_Expert_72 3 жыл бұрын

Praise God 🙏!!!

@StephenCClark 2 жыл бұрын

Video about how the elements of the periodic table are perfectly fitted for life such that the elements are an infinitely unlikely ensemble of fortuitous coincidences uniquely suited for life.

@thegoodnews2132 3 жыл бұрын

“Man is the center of the world … The central place in the world which God has created belongs to man.” “The universe was not just designed for being like us but it was also designed for our species on this planet.” “The cosmos as revealed by modern science conveys the irresistible impression of having been designed by an intelligent agent for the benefit of mankind.” “Thus declares Jehovah, who stretches forth the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him”. (Zechariah 12:1) “Thus says God Jehovah, / Who created the heavens and stretched them out, / Who spread forth the earth and what springs up from it, / Who gives breath to the people upon it / And spirit to those who walk on it”. (Isaiah 42:5) “For thus says Jehovah, / Who created the heavens- / He is the God / Who formed the earth and made it; / He established it; / He did not create it waste, / But He formed it to be inhabited: / I am Jehovah and there is no one else”. (Isaiah 45:18) “In His creation God made three crucial, equally important items - the heavens, the earth, and the spirit of man. The heavens are for the earth, the earth is for man, and man was created by God with a spirit that he may contact God, receive God, worship God, live God, fulfill God’s purpose for God, and be one with God.” (Zech. 12:1, footnote 2, Holy Bible Recovery Version.)

@Mellow_0007 3 жыл бұрын

Praise Jehovah.❤

@thegreatbehoover788 2 жыл бұрын

The original writings used YAHWEH, not Jehovah. God's name is more properly YAH when people spoke of Him because His name was so Holy. Many cults and sects attempt to rewrite history claiming that Jehovah is His real name. Only it isn't. God never corrected mankind by telling anyone that His name is only Jehovah. Just a warning to those that don't realize the underlying problem of false religious beliefs. If anyone tells you that Jehovah is the only nae of God, then they are IGNORANT of His Word.

@aswhiteassnow5087 Жыл бұрын

Fabulous

@neilenglish7433 3 жыл бұрын

That was an awesome talk! How great is our God! Praise be to the Lord of Heaven's Armies and Christ Jesus His only begotten Son!

@KenJackson_US 3 жыл бұрын

Pity those who have total confidence in the foolish notion that all we see is here by chance.

@sliglusamelius8578 3 жыл бұрын

Scientific materialism as a philosophical bias ruined my enjoyment of science as an undergraduate student. The atheism that is wedded to that bias was very apparent among the professors, and I lost the enchantment of learning. Michael Denton reawakens the enchantment!

@JohnSmith-gy4qj 2 жыл бұрын

Have you talked with Richard Dawkins?

@historicworker 2 жыл бұрын

why cant i clip segments of this video to share?

@JayDeeChannel Жыл бұрын

What about the weather cycle on Titan? That’s the same as the water cycle on earth.

@rubiks6 2 жыл бұрын

(01:58) "... designed for beings _like_ ourselves."? Not "beings _like_ ourselves" but simply for "us."

@anthonydefreitas5734 3 жыл бұрын

Outstanding lecture...awe inspiring... arouses "gooseflesh". Thank you MD. (However worship the sun? Ezekiel 8¹⁵,¹⁶; Romans 1 ²⁵)

@sliglusamelius8578 3 жыл бұрын

He added to worship the Being who made the sun. The statement was tongue in cheek.

@thegreatbehoover788 2 жыл бұрын

That's what the ATHEISTS said... SUN. Michael cleverly meant SON in his tongue in cheek presentation of those words!!!😉

@chrisevans4070 Жыл бұрын

I think therefore I am. Nay... You think because I AM.🙏

@snteevveetns 3 жыл бұрын

Just a point out the opposite view for water and light. Evolutionists would say we are here today because we have evolved under these conditions. It is all a matter of perspective on how we look at things. My perspective is shaped through the biblical lens, like yours.

@soarhighascender 3 жыл бұрын

Today, one thing is not told to people is the main story of human kind it is the medieval ages;the golden age of mankind as it should be referred rather than as dark ages

@BibleResearchTools 3 жыл бұрын

_"For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited" -- Isa __45:18__ KJV_ Dan

@spiritualparadise4887 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic presentation. As the psalmist tells us: "The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind". (Psalm 115:16)(NIV). Evidence is everywhere that the earth was created with mankind in view. What a travesty that man is destroying this beautiful planet because of his greed and selfishness. (Revelation 11:18).

@edgarvalderrama1143 3 жыл бұрын

You mean the universe was made for me? I thought we "were made" to be able to live in the world - but who knows! ALL I "know" is that I know less than Socrates... and that we are immersed in unknown mystery. I sort of envy all "you people" that (think you actually) "know something."

@thegreatbehoover788 2 жыл бұрын

You CAN now KNOW. But instead you SOMEHOW(???) BELIEVE that we haven't discovered MORE about life than the people of Socrates time????? SERIOUSLY??? Socrates could not see the OBVIOUS DESIGN EVIDENCE that exists in the TRILLIONS of cells making up our bodies...ALL DIFFERENT...and ALL simultaneously communicating in the FASTEST, MOST SOPHISTICATED, MOST EFFECTIVE, and MOST EFFICIENT communication network in existence!!! Now that we KNOW DNA CODE CAN'T SELF-CREATE and SELF-ASSEMBLE into cells...we KNOW a super-intellect PRECEDING all life on earth DID. The only question remaining is why are you TOO LAZY to find out WHO?

@JonathanPoland 3 жыл бұрын

So, our we going to these other planets or not?

@thegreatbehoover788 2 жыл бұрын

Too far away. Time travel is a myth as are travel through wormholes.

@JK-pd7jf 6 ай бұрын

Everybody read Psalm 8!

@martinlee465 2 жыл бұрын

God is not in the universe, the universe is in God. All glory and honour to God our Father forever. "As worthy as a grain of sand, But you hold me precious in your hand. You have raised me up above the clabber, Of all creation I call you Father ".

@jacekstacher6347 3 жыл бұрын

this phylosophy is like, nothing without consciousness moving by itselfs, but yet my plate moved by itself in my sink today ...

@thegreatbehoover788 2 жыл бұрын

Your plate's movement was CAUSED silly!!! You PLACED it in a position to move along the surface of the water in combination with gravitational forces. This man was talking about SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE....and somehow...in your mind...it became philosophy????? Seriously?????

@christianaspas 3 жыл бұрын

@tiffanymagee2700 2 жыл бұрын

What a brilliant lecture. I think all scientific lectures should lead us into some kind of awe of our Creator.

@stumpintheearth1088 3 жыл бұрын

The wise miss this most important fact. Man (Adam) was first, made (sown) from the physical earth, into a spiritual being. Adam's transgression brought about this physical body with death tagging along. Think the parable of the sower. 1 Corinthians 15:44 *It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.* There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

@JayDeeChannel Жыл бұрын

These coincidences are truly incredible but it’s too easy to look to a god for an answer. How?

@charlesmiller6281 23 күн бұрын

It goes even further than this. Watch the video on where the elements come from. Stars. Supernovae. The starting mass of the universe. The rate of expansion, formation of superclusters of galaxies. Even on that large scale our Local Group of Galaxies is unique. The Milky Way is the most stable symmetrical galaxy we know. The solar system’s location today in a stable spiral arm is quite different than where it formed, surrounded by lots of supernovae. Without those supernovae the Earth would lack the metals that make technology possible. But life in that high radiation environment is impossible. So the Sun had to be ejected from that and stabilized in its current orbit. Any single one of these is incomprehensibly unlikely. All of them together is transcendent engineering to say the least. The evidence for God is everywhere. I only wish more knew this.

@timothylosee8831 3 жыл бұрын

Colossians 1:16 - for by him (Jesus Christ) all things were created, whether the heavens or the earth, visible or invisible... Jesus created you!

@cobramcjingleballs 2 жыл бұрын

here's where i disagree..it wasnt first science, they all agreed about god being creator, it was the french, trying to overthrow the catholic church supporting the state, in 1700s that wanted to use science to do that. First theory of evolution came from this, Lamarck and Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus, till disproved easily by cutting mice tails off in 1820s

@mooselee6699 3 жыл бұрын

The puddle argument would knock his whole argumentation down. True, there is aperfect fit between humans and their environment, but the reason for this fit could be, because humans perfectly adapted to the given circumstances.

@SincerityAF 3 жыл бұрын

Are you guys planning any collaboration with Muslims?

@KenJackson_US 3 жыл бұрын

Why? What do Muslims believe on this topic?

@osamanagee594 3 жыл бұрын

he story of the birth of the Prophet Jesus in the Holy Quran kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zpl2Z5Z1ncXVl6c.html

@robertseavor4304 3 жыл бұрын

I know God exists through revelation, not science.

@khufu8699 3 жыл бұрын

Agree with everything except the last conclusion. The fitness of the universe that creates the fitness of Earth, is the same fitness factory that drives other planets to be fit. We are not special in that way. 40 billion earth like planets in galaxy and over 200 billion galaxies (that we can observe). Even if only 1% have intelligent life, that is a boat load. The basic mechanisms Drive everything toward life, from the cosmos down to the plant life.

@KenJackson_US 3 жыл бұрын

*BillS:* _"Even if only 1% have intelligent life, ..."_ But how would intelligent life get there? It only exists if God created it there. Evolution doesn't work and abiogenesis is a total joke. Did God create intelligent life on multiple planets?

@brightwellkunene8995 3 жыл бұрын

But we don't know that even 1% of the other earth's have life in them, even though there could be 40 billions of such other earths. We can only speculate. We should have at least discovered just one that has life. So your disagreement does not matter much if we must only speculate.

@izziebon 3 жыл бұрын

You say “even IF”! But Denton and Behe are not talking about “if“; they are explaining what “is“. We cannot say that there is intelligent life on any other planet, even though it is a possibility. The other planets are clearly fit for other unique or specific purposes.

@tomashull9805 3 жыл бұрын

The "if" it the problem... No evidence but specualtions...

@Gutians 3 жыл бұрын

Ken Jackson how does evolution not work lol

@Gutians 3 жыл бұрын

But it took billions of years for life to be made possible in the first place then millions of years of evolving

@mohanrao5017 3 жыл бұрын

please keep Ur belief with U .It is SCIENCE lecture .

@dsdcp 3 жыл бұрын

So much evidence but he keeps not believing in God's bible.

@justjudge6154 3 жыл бұрын

Allah in Quran describes expansion of universe in verse:- "We created the heavens with power and we are expanding them".

@freshstartboys3581 3 жыл бұрын

Sadly, here is another brilliant man, so trapped by his intelligence, that he can recognize the need for intelligence, but can't relinquish control to God to have done it as He declared. As Lennox said: "It is so obvious, yet I know many professors who can't see it." I just learned of another one. Even biologos likes this guy's book "against" evolution. For someone who believes the Bible, that's a problem.

@thegreatbehoover788 2 жыл бұрын

And yet No one...has ever been able to provide UNASSUMED OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE of evolution!!!! ONLY FAITH STATEMENTS support the biggest lie of the scientific community. But somehow...you BELIEVE that which is in OPPOSITION to the Bible is okay???....but a BELIEVER who agrees with the SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE which has CLEARLY DISPROVEN the evolutionary DOGMA is now.... somehow..... a "PROBLEM"????? Feel free to post your UNASSUMED OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE of evolution...your BEST SCIENTIFIC PAPER...DEVOID of FAITH STATEMENTS. I will gladly EXPOSE the FAITH STATEMENTS and/or circular reasoning within should you foolishly attempt to support your FAITH in evolution. Please....by all means...try!

@Gutians 3 жыл бұрын

You are stating this as tho we popped out of nowhere into existence in wonderland, not true, earth was hell millions and billions of years ago

@tomashull9805 3 жыл бұрын

I'm big fan of Denton, but I'm disappointed... He fails to explain the fitness of nature; or a law-like evolutionary unfolding of life' mechanism... If Denton rejects creationism according to kinds, or families, and Darwinian evolution, how does he explain common descent of a 5 pound land walking mammal into a 50 ton whale by fitness of nature? What's the mechanism? I'm not going to ask for transitional forms between the 2 life forms, because even layman know they are not there...