Michael John Denton was born on 25 August 1943 and is a British biochemist who is a proponent of intelligent design and a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
12 Facts About Michael Denton
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Michael Denton was a senior research fellow in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand from 1990 to 2005.
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Michael Denton later became a scientific researcher in the field of genetic eye diseases.
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Michael Denton has spoken worldwide on genetics, evolution and the anthropic argument for design.
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Michael Denton is currently a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
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In 1985 Michael Denton wrote the book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, presenting a systematic critique of neo-Darwinism ranging from paleontology, fossils, homology, molecular biology, genetics and biochemistry, and argued that evidence of design exists in nature.
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Michael Denton describes himself as an evolutionist and he has rejected biblical creationism.
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Since writing the book Michael Denton has changed many of his views on evolution; however, he still believes that the existence of life is a matter of design.
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Michael Denton still accepts design and embraces a non-Darwinian evolutionary theory.
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Michael Denton denies that randomness accounts for the biology of organisms; he has proposed an evolutionary theory which is a "directed evolution" in his book Nature's Destiny.
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Life, according to Michael Denton, did not exist until the initial conditions of the universe were fine-tuned.
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Michael Denton argues for a law-like evolutionary unfolding of life.