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The Human Body as a Marvel of Engineering

“The systems that are required to make the human body work,” says Steve Laufmann, “are exactly the kinds of things that engineers design and build.” Read More ›
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Photo: Medium tree finch, by Jody O'Connor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Is Adaptation Actually a Fight to Stay the Same?

Charles Darwin pointed to small changes like finch beak size and peppered moth color as visible evidence of an unguided evolutionary process at work. Read More ›
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Intelligence Metrics: Measuring the Degree of Intelligence in Design

I had the privilege of speaking on intelligence metrics. Here are my slides. I hope soon to develop this talk into a proper peer-reviewed paper. Read More ›
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Natural Engineering in the Lifestyle of Honey Bees

We had no idea, but apparently a swarm of bees in May on an easily accessible branch is something to get excited about! Read More ›
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Sandgrouse Takes the Royal Society to Design School

Episode guest Brian Miller talks with host Casey Luskin about the details of the ingenious design. Read More ›
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Is a New Design-Based Paradigm of Biology Emerging?

Brian Miller reports that optimality is becoming a tool of prediction in biology, with more biologists returning to the use of design-based assumptions. Read More ›
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Image at the top: From Episode 5 of Science Uprising, “Origin of Life: Intelligence Required.”

Breakthroughs Unveil Evidence of Foresight in Nature

From an engineering standpoint, it was essential that a way be found to protect the cell, life’s most basic unit. Read More ›
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Image: Hippocrates, Stuyvesant Polyclinic, New York, NY, by Tony Fischer via Flickr.

Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own. Read More ›
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Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Read More ›
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Answers Claims of “Bad Design” of the Human Foot/Ankle

Many who have studied the foot recognized its “excellent design." Leonardo da Vinci called the human foot “a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” Read More ›

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