Michael John Denton (born 25 August 1943) is a British-Australian biochemist who is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Denton is the author of Evolution: A Theory in Crisis and Nature’s Destiny, the former book was instrumental in starting the intelligent design movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Denton Michael …
What is Darwin’s point in chapter 14? https://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=236065#p236065 In this chapter, Darwin concludes the book and briefly reviews things stated earlier. At the beginning of the chapter, he claims to have given arguments against his theory their “full force”. “That many and grave objections may be advanced against the theory of descent with modification through …
What is Darwin’s point in chapter 13? https://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=235013#p235013 In chapter 13, Darwin presents several ideas in one chapter. The first is that of the classification of life. “Naturalists try to arrange the species, genera, and families in each class, on what is called the Natural System.” He then explores some of the criteria in how …
What is Darwin’s point in chapter 12? https://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=234570#p234570 In chapter 12 is just a continuation of chapter 11 and discusses about life being distributed around the planet. This is summarized in the following paragraph (and it’s perhaps one of the longest sentences in the entire book). “The relations just discussed, namely, low and slowly-changing organisms …
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What is Darwin’s point in chapter 11? https://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=230003#p230003 In chapter 11, Darwin discusses the patterns of distribution of life on the earth. This chapter again seems to address more the prevalent “theory of creation” (where species are fixed and placed at specific points) rather than give substantive support for natural selection. “These cases of relationship, …
What is Darwin’s point in chapter 10? https://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=228445#p228445 Chapter 10 is a general discussion of the appearance and disappearance of species in the fossil record. He states that species once lost do not reappear. “When a species has once disappeared from the face of the earth, we have reason to believe that the same identical …
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What is Darwin’s point in chapter 9? https://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=225497#p225497 In chapter 9, Darwin asks a very good question – “Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which …
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What is Darwin presenting in chapter 8? https://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=224716#p224716 In chapter 8, Darwin addresses the fourth problem of his theory – sterility of cross breeding of species. The main question he is trying to address is why is there generally sterility when crossing species. Natural selection cannot explain this since, by definition, sterility is not inheritable. …
What is the point of chapter 7? https://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=222384#p222384 In chapter 7, Darwin goes into a discussion about instinct and how it changes. He specifically narrows the topic of instinct change to members of the same “class”. And also he does not talk about how instincts arise in the first place. “I must premise, that I …
What is Darwin presenting in chapter 6? https://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=221581#p221581 In chapter 6, Darwin presents two problems to his theory and tries to address them. The first problem is why do we not see a continuous gradation between all life, especially in the fossil record? “But, as by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why …