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“Poor Design”? Human Skeletal Joints Demonstrate Engineering Genius

Stuart Burgess answers evolutionist Nathan Lents, who has argued that human joints are poorly designed. Read More ›
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Burgess: Claims of “Poor Design” in Skeletal Joints Are Based on Critics’ Lack of Training in Engineering

Burgess’s lecture confronts one of the most common abuses of science aimed at suppressing the evidence for design in biology. Read More ›
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Rosenhouse’s Whoppers: Seeing Patterns in Biology Is Like Seeing Dragons in the Clouds

Since the flagellum gets so overused in the debate between ID and Darwinism, let’s change the system. Consider the leaf hopper. Read More ›
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Brian Miller: Engineering in Biology, and THE Engineer

If living systems were deliberately engineered, how good an engineer was the one behind those living systems? Read More ›
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Revolution as Scientists Treat Living Systems as Engineered

This sea change in perspective is rapidly accelerating progress in experimental biology. Read More ›
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Origin of Life without Intelligent Design? Long Story Short Tackles the “Energy Harnessing” Problem

“Life’s energy harnessing process is one big paradox. You need it before you can have it, and you can’t make it until you’ve already made it." Read More ›
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Irreducible Complexity in Ant Behavior Triggers a Recognition of Intelligent Design

Recent research draws an unapologetic parallel between human engineering and biological systems. Read More ›
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Dandelions, Darwin’s Bark Spider, and More: No Shortage of Biological Wonders

Those of us who find purpose in biology instead of random tinkering will not run out of material to get excited about any time soon. Read More ›
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Physicist Brian Miller: The Fruitful Marriage of Biology and Engineering

If biology isn’t designed, which is another way of saying "engineered," wouldn’t this state of affairs be pretty counterintuitive? Read More ›
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Brian Miller: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Engineering in the Biological Sciences”

Dr. Miller takes on a number of specific examples including the celebrated eyeless cavefish, which he “used to think was an absolute win for microevolution.” Read More ›

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