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Your Designed Body: “Irreducible Complexity on Steroids”

How could blind evolutionary processes, such as neo-Darwinism’s mechanism of natural selection working on genetic mutations, build this bio-engineering marvel? Read More ›
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“Poor Design”? Actually, the Human Body Is Amazing; Here’s Why

If someone suggests that a coherent, interdependent system of systems arose by chance, they’ll need to back that up with a detailed engineering analysis. Read More ›
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Laufmann: Billions of Ways to Die! 

Engineer Steve Laufmann explains a basic reality that evolutionary biologists overlook. Read More ›
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Photo: Cratoborellia gorbi, paratype MSF Z10, G. Bechly 2006.

Fossil Friday: The Complex Wing Folding of Earwigs

This highly complex mode of wing folding is one of the many examples of engineering marvels in insects that strongly suggest intelligent design. Read More ›
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More Unnatural Naturalism, and More Confusion from Naturalists

Honeybees and cells have a limited set of options that are programmed into their genomes. Read More ›
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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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