Tag: butterfly wings

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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
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, butterflies, butterfly wings, Darwinians, dead leaf butterfly, dung spiders, evolution, false heads, five percent solution, foresight, hind wing, insects, intelligent design, lycaenid butterflies, orchids, plants, preplanning, rockets, self-protection, spacecraft, spiders, walking leaf insects, walking stick insects}

For Darwinism, Here Is the Problem with Butterfly Mimicry

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 23, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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The usual explanation we hear is that the butterflies, spiders, plants, etc., “evolved this way in order to” survive predators. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
May 11, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, academia, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, antibiotics, beauty, body plans, butterfly wings, consciousness, creativity, creator, evolutionary processes, faith and science, foresight, free will, genetic code, God's Grandeur, goodness, human dignity, human origins, intelligent agents, intelligent design, intelligibility, materialistic science, molecular machines, monotheism, morality, natural law, podcasts, rationality, Roman Catholic, theism, transcendentals, truth, universe, wings}

God’s Grandeur: Some Resources to Explore

_{Ann Gauger
May 11, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Scientific Reasoning

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How many people are willing to give up morality, rationality, free will, truth, beauty, and goodness as valuable concepts based on reality? Read More ›

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Date
May 29, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, American Chemical Society, biologists, Biomimetics, biomimicry, butterfly wings, China, coral, Duke University, engineers, fish scales, geckos, Georgia Tech, intelligent design, Johns Hopkins University, leaf, leaves, materials science, nanowires, New Scientist, polymers, telescopes}

Applied Intelligent Design: Engineers Know Engineering When They See It

_{Science and Culture
May 29, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The adhesive properties of gecko toe pads, based on atomic van der Waals attraction, have been understood for years now. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Behe

Date
January 28, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, animal kingdom, beauty, butterfly wings, cholesterol, Darwinian mechanism, David Snoke, law, literature, mind, music, mutations, natural selection, nutrition, sexual selection}

Here’s How to Tell if Scientists Are Exaggerating

_{Michael Behe
January 28, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Here’s the simple test to tell if scientists are exaggerating wildly. Let’s call it: “The Principle of Comparative Difficulty.” Read More ›

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Date
November 22, 2011

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, __k-review, __video-unavailable, Alexander Tsiaras, birth, butterflies, butterfly wings, conception, intelligent design, metamorphosis}

From Conception to Birth: The Math and the Marvel

_{Science and Culture
November 22, 2011

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Mathematician and medical image maker Alexander Tsiaras offers a stunning visualization. Read More ›

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Date
November 22, 2011

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, butterflies, butterfly wings, David Berlinski, evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, metamorphosis, Metamorphosis, Nature}

Better Electronics with Butterfly Technology

_{Science and Culture
November 22, 2011

Intelligent Design

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The new design mimics two advantages of butterfly wings: optical enhancement and water resistance. Read More ›

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post

Date
September 6, 2011

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, butterfly wings, junk DNA, Metamorphosis}

Divining Darwin in Butterfly Genes

_{Science and Culture
September 6, 2011

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A team of scientists carefully examined genomes of a butterfly and a silkworm. What they found was interesting, but dubious as an example of evolutionary ancestry. Read More ›

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post

Date
September 6, 2011

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __k-review, butterfly wings, David Berlinski, science}

Berlinski on Swedish Nudism and the Inordinate Sponginess of Scientific “Naturalism”

_{Science and Culture
September 6, 2011

Faith & Science

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"Mathematics is a paradigmatic case of a science that has nothing to do with natural anything." Read More ›