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New Engineering Ideas from Biology

The 2023 Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, organized by the CSC's Engineering Research Group, is set for June 1-3 in Denton, Texas. Read More ›
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Mama Bear Apologetics Takes on Richard Dawkins

Dawkins invokes the beautiful order evident in the murmuration of bird flocks as evidence that complexity can evolve from simple algorithmic rules. Read More ›
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Fleshing Out a Theory of Biological Design

Steve Laufmann and Michael Egnor explore these and other insights at the intersection of biology and engineering. Read More ›
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Intelligent Design in Animal Self-Location and Navigation

A question is whether such mechanisms exist in more ancient brain regions of other animals. A new study has identified a self-location mechanism in zebrafish. Read More ›
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Photo: Beetles collected by Charles Darwin, by Emőke Dénes, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolution: How Darwin’s Four Causal Factors Fail

Systems engineer Steve Laufmann explains why the four lack the power to generate life’s great variety of forms. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith Asks, Is Your Body “Engineered”?

Or did it evolve through impersonal and random processes over countless millions of years of natural selection? Read More ›
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Will an Engineering Paradigm Supplant Darwinism?

Its summer of dominance after neo-Darwinism arose and conquered every field of biology led to an autumn of colorful just-so stories, and now a Narnian rule. Read More ›
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Steve Laufmann: Is Biology Engineering?

Laufmann describes how his work as a systems engineer relates to the red hot field of systems biology. Read More ›
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Your Designed Respiratory System: Causal Circularities and Irreducible Complexities

There are individual systems that are irreducibly complex, and these are joined together into a higher-level system of systems. Read More ›
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Listen: “Design Errors” in the Human Body?

Nathan Lents often ignores something basic to engineering — the necessity of design tradeoffs. Read More ›

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