MICHAEL DENTON

BIRTH AND DEATH

Birth: 8/25/1943     Death:

OCCUPATION

scientist

BIOGRAPHY SUMMARY

Michael John Denton 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. He holds a PhD degree in biochemistry. Denton's book, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, inspired intelligent design proponents Phillip Johnson and Michael Behe.

NOTABLE WORK

WHY THEY MATTER

Michael Denton is intellectually unique for his contributions to the intelligent design movement within the scientific community. His book, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, challenged conventional evolutionary theory and inspired other proponents of intelligent design. Denton's background in biochemistry adds a scientific rigor to his arguments, making him a notable figure in the debate over the origins of life.

FAMOUS QUOTE

There can be no question thatDarwinhad nothing like sufficient evidence to establish his theory ofevolution. . . . His general theory, that all life on earth had originated and evolved by a gradual successive accumulation of fortuitous mutations, is still, as it was in Darwin's time, a highly speculative hypothesis entirely without direct factual support and very far from that self-evident axiom some of its more aggressive advocates would have us believe. . . . One might have expected that a theory of such cardinal importance, a theory that literally changed the world, would have been something more than metaphysics, something more than a myth.p. 69, 77, 358

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