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Michael Denton’s new book: Nature is fine-tuned for human existence

Denyse O'Leary
May 10, 2022
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Michael Denton has a new book out, The Miracle of Man: The Fine Tuning of Nature for Human Existence

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From the publisher:

For years, leading scientists and science popularizers have insisted humans are nothing special in the cosmic scheme of things. In this important and provocative new book, renowned biologist Michael Denton argues otherwise. According to Denton, the cosmos is stunningly fit not just for cellular life, not just for carbon-based animal life, and not even just for air-breathing animals, but especially for bipedal, land-roving, technology-pursuing creatures of our general physiological design. In short, the cosmos is specifically fit for creatures like us. Drawing on discoveries from a myriad of scientific fields, Denton masterfully documents how contemporary science has revived humanity’s special place in nature. “The human person as revealed by modern science is no contingent assemblage of elements, an irrelevant afterthought of cosmic evolution,” Denton writes. “Rather, our destiny was inscribed in the light of stars and the properties of atoms since the beginning. Now we know that all nature sings the song of man. Our seeming exile from nature is over. We now know what the medieval scholars only believed, that the underlying rationality of nature is indeed ‘manifest in human flesh.’ And with this revelation the… delusion of humankind’s irrelevance on the cosmic stage has been revoked.”

David Klinghoffer, “The Miracle of Man: New Book by Michael Denton” at Evolution News (May 10, 2022)
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The universe isn’t fine tuned for us, we are fined tuned for the universe by evolution….
Exactly. The obvious candidate for designer. It all fits.Fred Hickson
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CD, Krauss of a universe from a non existent hat? As to the attack on fine tuning simply look here https://uncommondescent.com/physics/globular-cluster-m55-as-illustrating-apparent-aging-of-our-galaxy-cosmos/ and note the chart of where we are. It is distractive to point to outer space as hostile to life while dodging how the framework of the cosmos makes it possible for life bearing planets such as Earth to be. KFkairosfocus
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Seversky we can observe are unremittingly hostile to life such as ours.The extrasolar planets we have been able to detect so far could not support life as we know it. Only on this one small planet are conditions favorable enough to allow life to flourish.
Why are you crying like a baby and doing nothing to solve the problem ?
Chuckdarwin Lawrence Krauss demolished Stephen Meyer
Yep ,it's the best! Lawrence Krauss also demolished Jeffrey Epstein's critics.Lieutenant Commander Data
May 10, 2022
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A few years back when Lawrence Krauss demolished Stephen Meyer in a debate on ID, Krauss brought up a point that needs to be reiterated. The universe isn’t fine tuned for us, we are fined tuned for the universe by evolution….chuckdarwin
May 10, 2022
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The conditions in the vast majority of the Universe we can observe are unremittingly hostile to life such as ours. The extrasolar planets we have been able to detect so far could not support life as we know it. Only on this one small planet are conditions favorable enough to allow life to flourish. Yet even here there have been cataclysmic events which have come close to destroying all life on Earth. For all we know, the next one could seal the deal. On its face, this book sounds like just another extended version of Douglas Adams's "puddle" analogy and its contention just as absurd.Seversky
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