Evolution

Still a Theory in Crisis

By: Michael Denton

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's Summary

More than 30 years after his landmark book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1985), biologist Michael Denton revisits his earlier thesis about the inability of Darwinian evolution to explain the history of life. He argues that there remains "an irresistible consilience of evidence for rejecting Darwinian cumulative selection as the major driving force of evolution." From the origin of life to the origin of human language, the great divisions in the natural order are still as profound as ever, and they are still unsupported by the series of adaptive transitional forms predicted by Darwin. In addition, Denton makes a provocative new argument about the pervasiveness of nonadaptive order throughout biology, order that cannot be explained by the Darwinian mechanism.

©2019 Michael Denton (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Pseudoscience book of Ignorance

This book is an example of utter ignorance.

Evolution is a fact because it is observed to happen consistently in all life. Even viruses which are not necessarily considered life evolve. The theory of evolution explains very successfully how evolution occurs.

We observe evolution in the natural environment and in that which we breed with artificial selection. Cancer is a side effect of mutations. Cancer are cells that have mutated and no longer stop growing. They have changed. When treated and return are far harder to treat.


Evidence. Evolution is supported by three main areas of evidence.

1. It is observed to happen all the time.
2. Genetics explains the mechanism of hereditary and change.
3. Fossils are a record of how evolution changed in the past.

The evidence for evolution is overwhelming in the extreme. Yet you come here and state complete falsehoods about evolution. You ignore the evidence. You insult the remarkable scientists in the field who dedicate their working lives to the research of biology.

This book is not aware that the biology and medicine are based on evolutionary science

The author’s principles will not determined that the current COVID-19 virus is an evolved virus

The author does not know that flu viruses are evolving so we need to update the vaccine continually and How are farmers and breeders changing their crops and animals to suit us?

Author is not aware speciation has been observed in the lab?

Author ignores that humans and chimpanzees have been proven to have a common ancestor through chromosome 2 fusion?

My bet is that the author is a believer in a god or other religious doctrine and this is the reason that he is straightly umping through mental hoops to try to disprove evolution.

This book does not give any genuine scientific reasons. I also get that this book is full of straw msn arguments as it CANNOT rebut real science.

Wow

This is a masterpiece, rising above other intelligent design literature for its sheer scope, It’s breath of vision is profound, Denton’s prose is also some of the densest and uses challengingly precise vocabulary. The only criticism is he is not writing for the average person But for those in the fields of evolutionary biology, and philosophy of science. Stick with it through the dense parts, the end is worth it.

A logical and evidentiary challenge to Darwin

extremely interesting and well-organized argument using scientific discoveries to counter the premise of neo-darwinism. also and open-minded construct to being wrong, unlike so many ardent Darwin supporters.

Fascinating

When you search with a curious mind and an honest heart, the world of creation will shout out the name of the Lord. It is not random. It is not coincidental. A force like this must have intelligence. And His name is GOD.

Thank you, Mr Denton!

Brilliant book! Glory to God in the highest! Probably not for adherents to the religion of atheism, though.

Tough read

Extremely thorough and well substantiated walk through through an immensely important yppig. Somewhat above my level, but definitely Got the main points through. Impressive!

This Book Automatically Played When I Was Asleep

I didn't have this book in my library. Just finished writing a thesis on race in my Cultural Anthropology class. I fell asleep listening to Darwin's House of Cards. Woke up to the first chapter playing. I picked up my phone because I had an open mind of what I was hearing. I turn on the phone and see this book playing. I think God in a way had this book revealed to me. Because as a Darwin supporter, I was defending race for science giving evidence that it is biological and not just a social construct. I give this book 5 stars and if this book found its way to you. Listen to it and take in the evidence.

99% sure read by AI

A great book. Just get the suspicion by the style that this is AI, which is pretty impressive, since I’m not 100% sure.

Another silly naturalist explanation falls flat

While Denton surely disposes of the mythology darwinism using factual UNASSUMED OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE, he does absolutely NOTHING to support any replacement. Simply claiming that Darwin's finches were shaped by INTERNAL CAUSAL FACTORS...natural laws.... or SALTATION EVENTS...is disingenuous to OBSERVATIONAL EMPIRICAL SCIENCE. The fact is that Denton has literally "kicked the can" down the road and insisted that another COMPLETELY UNSUPPORTED naturalistic mechanism is "obvious" or somehow "supported"! No, his ASSUMPTIONS of LAWS CREATING were completely UNSUPPORTED and as UNOBVIOUS in his book as is darwinism. LAWS CAN'T create any more than a natural selection fairy! The epigenetic PREPROGRAMMING of DNA CODE required to tune beaks or body sizes in birds is left COMPLETELY UNEXPLAINED. It is extremely difficult for a NON-programmer to grasp why the MOST SOPHISTICATED and COMPLEX and VOLUMINOUS CODE ever assembled is not accidentally wrought. Furthermore, it is pure sophistry to believe these PREPROGRAMMED EVENTS had no external cause. DNA CODE CAN'T SELF-CREATE and SELF-ASSEMBLE into cells. Worse yet, no two Chromosomes have EVER been observed to combine AUTOMAGICALLYto form any new species. The ludicrous assumptions of naturalists end in a brick wall of: IMPOSSIBLE! Yet naturalists continue to IGNORE the OBVIOUS and BELIEVE in the IMPOSSIBLE and the DISPROVEN. Darwinism fails, structuralism fails, Miller Urey failed, world and evo devo fail. And still...the FAITH-FILLED BELIEVERS continue to quote them as "proof". The OBVIOUS creation of a SUPERGENIUS designer is constantly IGNORED by the silly fearful naturalists.

Very helpful book.

Michael Denton holds a PhD degree in biochemistry.
He is not a Christian, and claims to be an evolutionist, but brings out that Darwin’s theory of evolution is very problematic from a scientific point of you. He is considered to be a great scientist and many other famous scientists have taken his work very seriously.
Many other scientists have found that after 150 years of investigation, Darwin’smain thesis does not hold water.

Creationist drivel in disguise

The agenda is clear from the get go. Darwinism and creationism are compared as equally valid ‘theories’.

Logical

Structuralism seems much more logical than functionalism. Very interesting I had not thought of any other narrative until now.