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On this ID the Future,<\/strong> biochemist Michael Denton draws from his groundbreaking new book, The Miracle of the Cell<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> to explore a fine-tuning design argument centered on the periodic elements essential for life. Twenty elements\u2014and water, too\u2014appear to have been precisely fine-tuned in advance for highly specific biochemical roles. Without their precise properties, cellular and animal life would be impossible. \u201cWords fail,\u201d says Denton, to describe the \u201calmost eerie sense\u201d that someone very powerful knew in advance the roles and capacities required of various elements to carry out the astonishingly sophisticated activities that make cellular life possible. Denton says that this fine tuning provides an independent line of evidence that life is the result of intelligent design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this ID the Future, biochemist Michael Denton draws from his groundbreaking new book, The Miracle of the Cell, to explore a fine-tuning design argument centered on the periodic elements essential for life. Twenty elements\u2014and water, too\u2014appear to have been precisely fine-tuned in advance for highly specific biochemical roles. Without their precise properties, cellular and animal life would be impossible. \u201cWords fail,\u201d says Denton, to describe the \u201calmost eerie sense\u201d that someone very powerful knew in advance the roles and capacities required of various elements to carry out the astonishingly sophisticated activities that make cellular life possible. Denton says that this fine tuning provides an independent line of evidence that life is the result of intelligent design.","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":39168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","sync_status":"synced","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/IDTF-1377-MichaelDenton-elements.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"295475","podmotor_episode_id":"269279","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:15:55","filesize":"9.4 mb","filesize_raw":"9808956","date_recorded":"2020-11-04","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1377","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3534,3535,3521,3533,3537,811,3532,1027,2043,3536,3531,3478,1618],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-39164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-circulatory-system-fine-tuning-of-water-for-life","tag-embryonic-development","tag-fine-tuning-2","tag-fine-tuning-of-metals-for-life","tag-fitness-of-nature-for-life","tag-intelligent-design","tag-metals","tag-mitochondria","tag-origin-of-life-research","tag-periodic-table","tag-robert-williams","tag-the-wonder-of-water","tag-water","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Michael Denton"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/11\/biological-and-science-background-stockpack-adobe-stock-scaled.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/idthefuture-cover.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-download\/39164\/1377.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/39164\/1377.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/39164\/1377.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/feed\/podcast\/intelligent-design-the-future","embedCode":"

Michael Denton and the Fine Tuning of Chemistry for Life<\/a><\/blockquote>