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Fingers Are Fine-Tuned Far Beyond the Need for Survival

Our exoskeleton could only make simple hand grips, far short of what a healthy human hand could manage. Read More ›
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The Incredible “Floating” Human Knee Joint

I fully agree with Nathan Lents that the evolutionary paradigm predicts the knee should be a very poor design Read More ›
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Listen: Stuart Burgess Details Examples of Your Body’s Ultimate Engineering

He’ll relate the time he and famed biologist Richard Dawkins debated, and he’ll remind us why we are all qualified to evaluate scientific theories of origins. Read More ›
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Friends in High Places: Prince Charles and Others

The prince’s criticism of evolutionary theory did cause quite a stir in the national press in the UK. Read More ›
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Platonic Minds: How Stuart Burgess’s Ultimate Engineering Challenges Maverick Biologist Michael Levin

Levin faces a measure problem analogous to that in cosmology, resulting from the optimality of biological designs. Read More ›
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Is Biology Intelligently Engineered? Ask an Engineer

Stuart Burgess shares his experiences navigating academic skepticism, noting that many biologists are forthcoming in expressing doubts about macroevolution. Read More ›
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Happy Darwin Day! Significance of New Book on Human Anatomy Cannot Be Overstated

Dr. Burgess's own research proved that knee joint geometry and supporting structures are optimally designed to achieve multiple objectives. Read More ›
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Introducing Ultimate Engineering: A Conversation with Stuart Burgess

Evolutionary theory, unlike intelligent design, predicts a living world crowded with substandard designs. Read More ›
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Bad Design, or Ultimate Engineering? Two Views of Biology

An intelligent designer can employ foresight to envision a solution well beyond anything in existence at the time, and then set about making that a reality. Read More ›
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The Human Body’s “Ultimate Engineering”: New Book Available for Pre-Order Now

Evolution prompts us to expect in our bodies a grab bag of botched experiments conducted by blind, purposeless natural groping.  Read More ›

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