Michael Denton

Michael Denton (born 1943) is a British biochemist and physician and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture, who argues for intelligent design. He took a medical doctorate at Bristol in 1969 and a PhD in biochemistry at King's College London in 1974, was senior research fellow in biochemistry at the University of Otago from 1990 to 2005 and later researched genetic eye diseases. His 1985 book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis presented a critique of neo-Darwinism and influenced Phillip Johnson and Michael Behe, and his 1998 book Nature's Destiny proposed a directed evolution. Some reviewers criticised his arguments, and he describes himself as an agnostic who accepts evolution but rejects biblical creationism.