Book Review: Nature's Destiny

Author: Dr. Michael J. Denton
Spiritual Bias: Not sure
Origins Bias: Directed Evolutionist
Rating: Top Shelf
Level: Advanced

Comments: It's been understood for years that the requirements for life at a cosmological level fall within extremely small limits but in this book Denton looks to apply the same type of thinking in the direction of biology. He looks at the 'design' of biological life and finds it quite remarkable. Amongst some of the topics covered are the basic requirements for life on Earth and in the Universe, the fitness of the elements (especially carbon), the fitness of DNA, and the complexity of biological systems. I plaud Denton for being open minded about the question of origins and really can't say enough about how good this book is. Read it!

Summary Quote: "Science has revealed a vast chain of coincidences which lead inexorably to life on earth - not just microbial life but all life on earth, including large, air-breathing organisms like ourselves - a chain of adaptations which leads from the dimensions of galaxies, through the physical conditions in the center of stars to the heat capacity of water and the atom-manipulating capacities of proteins, and on eventually to our own species and our ability to comprehend the world. From the inertial resistance we encounter when we move our hand, determined by the mass of the most distant stars, to the radioactive heat in the earth's interior which drives the great tectonic system, thus ensuring a continual replenishing of the vital elements of life- all nature, every facet of reality, is bound together into one mutual self-referential biocentric whole."