Evolution, Michael Denton
Evolution, Michael Denton
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Evolution
Still a Theory in Crisis

Author: Michael Denton

Narrator: John McLain

Unabridged: 11 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2019


Synopsis

More than thirty 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.

About Michael Denton

Michael Denton is a senior fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Formerly a senior research fellow in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Otago in New Zealand, he earned his MD from Bristol University and a PhD in biochemistry from King’s College in London. He is author of Evolution: A Theory in Crisis and Nature’s Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe, and he has published articles in journals such as Nature, Nature Genetics, BioSystems, and Human Genetics.

About John McLain

John McLain is an award-winning storyteller with over 200 audiobook credits. He delights in narrating across many genres: detective noir, suspense and thrillers, westerns, nonfiction, biography, and more. John is a SOVAS Voice Arts Award winner, a two-time nominee for the prestigious Audie Award, and a winner of the Audiobook Reviewer Listeners' Choice Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Werner on November 14, 2008

Like all cultures, ours has a dominant origin myth (using the word in the sociological sense, which connotes nothing about its truth or falsity): in this case, the mythos of accidental evolution, the emergence and development of the universe and all life in it by blind, random chance through the pur......more

Goodreads review by Dennis on September 15, 2015

This is an unusual book. First, it is unusual because it is a book about evolution that manages to avoid the theological polemics (on both sides!) so common whenever the topic of evolution arises. Second, it is unusual because it is a 30 year old book about the science of evolution that is still rel......more

Goodreads review by Grace on November 22, 2014

I found the science compelling, though a lot of it I already knew, so I was able to breeze through quite a bit. Still, it did provide me with additional information, and the author properly builds up his arguments step by step. I find it mind-boggling that there are people who state categorically tha......more

Goodreads review by Mousa Alshaikh on August 15, 2017

It is highly recommended to understand the presuppositions before studying any scientific theory. The adoption or rejection of the theory of evolution depends on the choice of paradigm, a paradigm that always precedes the theory. The best chapters in this book are chapter 5 and 6, from pg. 250-350 w......more

Goodreads review by Charles on October 06, 2007

Denton's strength and originality lies in his sections on molecular biology, which whilst now dated, still make valuable and valid reading (in fact his case is stronger now as he anticipated). His principle argument is that far from bolstering the case for Darwin as is too often idly claimed, compar......more


Quotes

“In the growing debate over Darwin’s theories, Denton’s voice remains one of the most notable and compelling.” Publishers Weekly on Nature’s Destiny