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While others search the skies for extraterrestrial life, Michael Denton has examined the recent discoveries in all the sciences to ask - Could life elsewhere be substantially different from life on Earth? Drawing on a staggering knowledge of physics, biochemistry, geology, and evolution, Denton builds a step-by-step argument for human inevitability. Life requires water, DNA, and protein; it can only flourish in an Earth-like environment. Building on these claims -which,...

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The author of Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (not reviewed) again confronts the notion that the presence of humankind is a random event in a random universe, asserting that ``the cosmos is uniquely fit for the specific type of life that exists on Earth.'' Denton, a New Zealandbased researcher in genetics and eye disease, begins with the discoveries of 20th-century physics and cosmology that support what the first...

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New England biologist Denton continues the assault on Darwinian science, especially the theories of evolution and natural selection, that he began in Evolution: A Theory in Crisis. Here, Denton takes a page out of the work of 19th-century natural theologians like William Paley and 19th-century anti-Darwinian scientists like Robert Chambers to contend that, far from being random and without direction, the laws of nature operate by design. Moreover,...

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  • PublisherFree Press
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0684845091
  • ISBN 13 9780684845098
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
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  • Number of pages480
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