Tag: architecture

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 5, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, architecture, armadillos, arthropods, beauty, beehive, beeswax, biodiversity, biology, Biomimetics, butterfly wings, classification, compound eyes, Darwinism, design, engineering, evolution, False Messiah, function, functional needs, German Research Foundation, Gothic cathedrals, honeycomb, intelligent design, Jana Ciecierska-Holmes, Linnaean taxonomy, multifunctionality, Neil Thomas, phylogeny, PNAS Nexus, reptiles, scales, sunflowers, tessellated patterns, tessellation, tile shapes, tiles, tortoise shell}

Tiled Beauty: Functional Aesthetics in Biology

_{David Coppedge
December 5, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

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Tessellated patterns are surprisingly prevalent in biology. Are these forms necessary for function, or mere consequences of natural laws? Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 27, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anticipation, architecture, avida, cellulose, competition, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwin’s Bluff, David G. King, Discovery Institute, embedding, evolution, Evolution News, fitness, foresight, intelligent design, John West, Jonathan Wells, lineage selection, Luis Zaman, Marcos Eberlin, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, natural selection, Neil Thomas, New Coke, PNAS, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Robert Shedinger, Seattle, Southern Illinois University, University of Michigan}

The Convoluted Concept of Evolving Evolvability

_{David Coppedge
March 27, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Try to wrap your mind around the notion that evolvability evolves by natural selection. On second thought, don’t. It’s not conducive to mental health. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
August 1, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, architecture, BioEssays, biological systems, bow tie, cells, chance, Design Patterns, DNA polymerase, Energy, engineers, enzymes, gene regulation, groceries, intelligence, intelligent design, kinase, metabolites, natural world, phosphatase, random processes, reaction networks, Ribosome, RNA polymerase}

Review Article Explores Design Patterns in Biological Cells

_{Emily Reeves
August 1, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Living cells are strong candidates for being seen as aspects of the natural world resulting from design by an intelligent agent. Read More ›

Close-up of male hands skillfully playing the piano, showcasing professional piano technique.

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
November 23, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Chemistry
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physics
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, architecture, blood, color, colors, darkness, death, ears, equilibrium, evolution, excerpt, eyes, heart, human body, information, intelligent design, life, light, lungs, medicine, oxygen, photons, physicians, piano, Richard Dawkins, running, Steve Laufmann, swimming, systems, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, Walt Whitman}

“Poor Design”? Actually, the Human Body Is Amazing; Here’s Why

_{Howard Glicksman and Steve Laufmann
November 23, 2022

Anatomy, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physics, Reproductive Science

13}

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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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 3, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, architecture, arthropods, astronauts, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian strata, collagen, Current Biology, DNA, epithelial tissue, European Union, intelligent design, Mars, self-organization, spicules, sponges, temperature, termite mounds, termites, vertebrates}

Complex Specified Information in the Lowly Sponge

_{David Coppedge
August 3, 2022

Intelligent Design, Science

8}

Sponges are outliers in biology’s big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Their embryos appear in Precambrian strata, leading some to consider them primitive. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
December 7, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, algorithms, Araneae, architecture, arthropods, Charlotte’s Web, engineers, evolution, genes, intelligent design, orb webs, prey, proteins, rubber, silk glands, spinnerets}

The Miracle of Spiderwebs

_{Eric Cassell
December 7, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

Spiders are another of nature’s master engineers. About half of known spider species (order Araneae) construct webs made of silk. Read More ›

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Date
June 5, 2020

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, An Uplifting Story, Ann Gauger, architecture, Biomimetics, Children of Light, dandelion, Darwin's Dilemma, geometry, hummingbird, ID the Future, Illustra Media, intelligent design, Metamorphosis, Michael Denton, monarch butterfly, nature, Nature by Numbers, salmon, stars, sun, sunlight, The Privileged Planet}

Mathematics, Biology, and Awesome Wonder

_{Science and Culture
June 5, 2020

Biology, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

6}

“Infinite Patterns” starts with a simple triangle and builds to the most magnificent representations of human and nature’s designs. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 18, 2019

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, architecture, bioluminescence, Biomimetics, carcinology, click beetle, crustaceans, Darwin Devolves, entomology, France, froghopper, Harrison Tasoff, hinge, humidity, insects, John Dabiri, krill, leafhopper, medicine, mucus, National Science Foundation, ostracods, Paris, planthopper, PNAS, robots, Stanford University, temperature, termite mound, termites, UC Santa Barbara}

Small Wonders: Scientists Reveal the Secrets of Amazing Little Insects and Crustaceans

_{Science and Culture
March 18, 2019

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design

7}

It often seems that the closer you need to look, the greater the wonder. It’s as if someone set it there to hide, waiting for us. Read More ›

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post

Date
March 14, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, analogy, architecture, Boltzmann brain, codons, Darwinian evolution, entropy, Eugene Koonin, hopeful monster, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, letters, Michael Behe, multicellularity, multiverse, natural selection, nucleotides, PNAS, proteome, semantic information, The Logic of Chance, words}

Proteome Is Analogous to Language

_{Science and Culture
March 14, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

7}

A paper likens the proteome to a language with a “quasi-universal grammar” possessing the minimum complexity necessary to function as a cell. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 12, 2018

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptation, aesthetics, Ann Gauger, architecture, balance, beauty, evolution, evolutionary theory, face, function, humans, intellect, intelligent design, Michael Denton, Neanderthals, science, soul, spandrel, The Biology of the Baroque, The Conversation}

The Chin Enigma

_{David Klinghoffer
December 12, 2018

Arts, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

A scientific theory that on principle refuses to see the obvious is an achievement of which only humans are capable. Read More ›