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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
January 23, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cell division, cellular life, Charles Darwin, checkpoints, effectors, foresight, ID the Future, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Jonathan McLatchie, podcast, self-replication, sensors, spindle assembly checkpoint}

Engineered Elegance: Checkpoint Pathways of the Cell Cycle

_{Andrew McDiarmid
January 23, 2025

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One of the most incredible features of cellular life is the capability of self-replication. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 4, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, computers, design motifs, evolution, human limbs, ID the Future, intelligent design, muscles, robotics, sensors, Stuart Burgess, vehicles, vertebrate limbs, whale flipper}

The Universal Optimal Design of Vertebrate Limbs

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 4, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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When we look at feats of human engineering, like vehicles, skyscrapers, and computers, we don’t doubt our intuition that they’re intelligently designed. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
November 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anaphase, ATPase, BIO-Complexity, cell division, centromere, checkpoints, chromosome, dynein, eukaryotic cell cycle, eukaryotic cell division, foresight, Irreducible Complexity, kinesin, kinetochore, metaphase, microtubules, mitosis, mitotic cell division, motor proteins, protein complexes, proteins}

The Eukaryotic Cell Cycle: An Irreducibly Complex System

_{Jonathan McLatchie
November 26, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Any system that achieves a complex higher-level objective by means of various well-matched interacting components requires foresight to come about. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
November 11, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Asgard archaea, BIO-Complexity, control systems, eukaryotes, evolution, Evolution News, homologues, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinetochore network, last eukaryotic common ancestor, proteins}

New Paper Challenges Evolutionary Account of the Eukaryotic Cell Cycle

_{Jonathan McLatchie
November 11, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This is a subject of long-standing interest to me, and I have published several articles here. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 16, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, bioengineering, durability, engineers, evolution, flexibility, human knee, intelligent design, joints, Nathan Lents, Sports, stress, Stuart Burgess, The Human Evolution Blog, tissues}

Stuart Burgess Overturns the Claim that the ACL Is Poorly Designed

_{Brian Miller
October 16, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The explanation for ACL injuries is not poor design. Burgess noted in my interview with him that ACL tears were far less frequent in past centuries. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 10, 2024

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", Biomimetics, common ancestry, constraints, design framework, engineers, evolution, evolutionary biologists, foot, human limbs, humans, integration, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, knee, miniaturization, movement, multifunctionality, Research, robotics, tibia, vertebrate limbs, wrist}

New Research: Stuart Burgess Demonstrates the Exquisite Engineering of Human Limbs

_{Brian Miller
October 10, 2024

Anatomy, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Burgess’s research represents yet another nail in the coffin of the standard evolutionary model. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
September 20, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adenosine triphosphate, amino acids, ATP, causal circularity, cellular respiration, citric acid cycle, complexity, electron transport chain, enzymes, evolution, fructose, glycolysis, glycolytic pathway, hinge, intelligent design, mind, oxidative phosphorylation, oxygen, pyruvate, unguided evolution, universal common ancestor, water}

Challenges to the Evolutionary Origins of the Glycolytic Pathway

_{Jonathan McLatchie
September 20, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

The complexity and engineering sophistication comport much better with the hypothesis of design. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
September 19, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, "poor design", biological systems, cells, Darwinian evolution, development, egg, embryo, foresight, fruit flies, information flow, intelligent design, intent, optimality, optimization, Princeton University, William Bialek}

Optimization: A Theoretical Principle That Is Predictive for Biology

_{Emily Reeves
September 19, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics

7}

Are biological mechanisms optimized, or do they function poorly, evidence of their “poor design”? Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 10, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Energy, insects, intelligent design, size, spiders, vertebrates}

Intelligent Design — In Miniature

_{Eric Hedin
September 10, 2024

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Small vertebrates may be a thousand times larger than single-cell organisms, but they occupy a region of parameter space that presents unique properties. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
July 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Ailuropoda, bears, biologists, Chinese scientists, deletions, diploidal genome, evolution, genera, geneticists, insertions, intelligent design, mutations, neo-Darwinian theory, Panda's Thumb, phenotype, researchers, species, stasis, Ursidae}

More on the Panda’s Thumb: Imperfection or Masterpiece?

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
July 21, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

I would like to express my appreciation as a geneticist and biologist for the work on the molecular investigations and many other topics in the panda’s biology. Read More ›