Category: Engineering

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Author
Stuart Burgess

Date
March 9, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, art, Claude Debussy, cooking, dexterity, evolutionary process, evolutionary theory, exoskeleton, fingers, fitness, Formula 1 race car, go-kart, hand muscles, human brain, Menahem Pressler, motor cortex, motor units, muscle units, muscles, music, nerve pathways, prosthetic device, skillful moving, surgery, survival, technology, tool-making, touch, typing, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

Fingers Are Fine-Tuned Far Beyond the Need for Survival

_{Stuart Burgess
March 9, 2026

Anatomy, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Our exoskeleton could only make simple hand grips, far short of what a healthy human hand could manage. Read More ›

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Author
Stuart Burgess

Date
March 2, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ACL, anatomy, bipedal posture, cross links, cruciate ligaments, engineers, evolutionary theory, flexion, foot, four-bar linkage, hip joint, human knee, intelligent design, joints, knee joint, locking, multifunctioning, Nathan Lents, PCL, poor design, quads, rotation, squatting, standing, strength, tibia}

The Incredible “Floating” Human Knee Joint

_{Stuart Burgess
March 2, 2026

Anatomy, Engineering, Intelligent Design

5}

I fully agree with Nathan Lents that the evolutionary paradigm predicts the knee should be a very poor design Read More ›

Muscular Male athlete sprinter running fast,exercising outdoors,jogging outside against gray concret background with copy space area for text message or ad content.Side view,full length

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 20, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwinian expectations, engineering, evolution, eye, habitats, ID the Future, intelligent design, lab coats, locomotion, middle ear, nervous system, origins, Richard Dawkins, scientific theories, structures, systems, theories of origins, Ultimate Engineering, wrist joint}

Listen: Stuart Burgess Details Examples of Your Body’s Ultimate Engineering

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 20, 2026

Anatomy, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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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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Author
Stuart Burgess

Date
February 19, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Alan Linton, biologists, biomechanics, Bristol University, David Gelernter, Dean Kenyon, evolution, evolutionary materialism, Günter Bechly, Hallmarks of Design, intelligent design, King Charles III, muscles, non-scientists, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Reith lecture, Richard Dawkins, technology, tendons, Ultimate Engineering, unguided evolution}

Friends in High Places: Prince Charles and Others

_{Stuart Burgess
February 19, 2026

Anatomy, Engineering, Intelligent Design

6}

The prince’s criticism of evolutionary theory did cause quite a stir in the national press in the UK. Read More ›

Thought processes emotional intelligence are rendered through symbolic pathways that meticulously trace the minds inner workings

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
February 18, 2026

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biobots, cosmology, development, embryos, engineering, fine-tuning, human body, hybrots, machines, mathematicians, measure problem, Michael Levin, minds, multiverse, optimality, Pavlovian conditioning, personal agent, Plato, Platonic forms, Platonic ideas, Platonic patterns, Pythagoras, Richard Sternberg, scientific investigation, Tufts University, Ultimate Engineering, universe}

Platonic Minds: How Stuart Burgess’s Ultimate Engineering Challenges Maverick Biologist Michael Levin

_{Brian Miller
February 18, 2026

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design

4}

Levin faces a measure problem analogous to that in cosmology, resulting from the optimality of biological designs. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 17, 2026

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, accidents, biological mechanisms, biomechanics, Darwinian evolution, ear, engineering, European Space Agency, evolution, human body, human joints, ID the Future, intelligent design, joints, mechanical engineers, mouth, podcast, satellites, skepticism, Stuart Burgess, throat, Ultimate Engineering}

Is Biology Intelligently Engineered? Ask an Engineer

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 17, 2026

Engineering, Intelligent Design

3}

Stuart Burgess shares his experiences navigating academic skepticism, noting that many biologists are forthcoming in expressing doubts about macroevolution. Read More ›

Jumping and touching knee with elbow stock photo

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
February 12, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __trending, biology, bridges, design logic, Duke University, dysteleology, evolution, human anatomy, human body, Human Errors, human spine, intelligent design, joints, knee, load-baring capacity, longevity, motion, Nathan Lents, optimal design, poor design, Steven Vogel, Stuart Burgess, suboptimal design, teleology, tinkering, Ultimate Engineering, upright walking, vertebral disks}

Happy Darwin Day! Significance of New Book on Human Anatomy Cannot Be Overstated

_{Brian Miller
February 12, 2026

Anatomy, Engineering, Intelligent Design

3}

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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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 11, 2026

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological complexity, designers, designs, engineering, engineers, evolution, evolutionary theory, human body, ID the Future, intelligent cause, intelligent design, mindless processes, naturalism, optimal engineering, podcast, researchers, scientific evidence, Stuart Burgess, trade-offs, Ultimate Engineering, University of Bristol}

Introducing Ultimate Engineering: A Conversation with Stuart Burgess

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 11, 2026

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Evolutionary theory, unlike intelligent design, predicts a living world crowded with substandard designs. Read More ›

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Author
Stuart Burgess

Date
February 9, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abby Hafer, aging, arteries, bad design, biology, constraints, decay, Duke University, engineered systems, European Space Agency, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary mechanism, foresight, François Jacob, fungi, genetic flaws, heart, Human Errors, human technology, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, joints, lubrication, Nathan Lents, reproduction, Richard Dawkins, Steven Vogel, suboptimal design, survival, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Not-So-Intelligent Designer, The Origin of Species, theistic design, tinkering, unintelligent design}

Bad Design, or Ultimate Engineering? Two Views of Biology

_{Stuart Burgess
February 9, 2026

Anatomy, Engineering, Intelligent Design

8}

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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 19, 2026

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, accidents, car, Center for Science and Culture, Colin Wright, common sense, computer, constraints, Discovery Institute Press, endorsements, evidence, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionists, experiments, human body, humans, misuse, Nathan Jacobson, Nathan Lents, Stephen Meyer, Stuart Burgess, technology, TIME, Ultimate Engineering, University of Bristol}

The Human Body’s “Ultimate Engineering”: New Book Available for Pre-Order Now

_{David Klinghoffer
January 19, 2026

Engineering, Intelligent Design

2}

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