Cosmic Fine-Tuning Would Be Hard to Believe if It Weren’t True: an Interview with Michael Denton

“Nature is absurd,” jokes biologist Michael Denton, adapting a view expressed by physicist Richard Feynman. In saying so, Denton means to highlight what often seems to be the absurdly fine-tuned fitness of the properties of light, water, fire, and more, that allow for our existence.

Dr. Denton gives a masterful and highly charming summary of the thesis of his new book, Children of the Light: Astonishing Properties of Sunlight that Make Us Possible, latest entry in the Privileged Species series. Learn more here: https://www.discovery.org/store/produ…