Wheels Within Wheels: Michael Denton on the "Coincidences" that Make Us Possible

The online premiere this week of the documentary Privileged Species, featuring Discovery Institute geneticist Dr. Michael Denton, calls for some special comment. We have all heard too often that human beings are a mere speck in a cosmos that never cared about us. The argument seems to be of a piece with the view that we are an accident of nature that didn't have to be, that could have been something else, or might have been nothing at all. In a very large way, this documentary film stands in...