Tag: constraints

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 10, 2025

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Tagged
, anatomy, bacteria, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, constraints, Emily Reeves, engine, engine throttle valves, engineering, four-bar linkage systems, glucose transporters, ID 3.0, ID the Future, intelligent design, intelligent source, Jonathan McLatchie, predictions, two-component systems}

When Engineering Meets Biology: More From Our Scientist Roundtable

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 10, 2025

Biology, Engineering

3}

When biologists use principles of engineering to study living systems, they can gain a richer, deeper understanding of how and why life works. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
January 23, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, aliens, bacterial flagellum, Charles Darwin, Cicero, constraints, cooption, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, David Berlinski, David Coppedge, exaptation, H. Allen Orr, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Lucretius, Michael Behe, Modern Synthesis, natural philosophers, Neo-Darwinism, Occam's Razor, reductio ad absurdum, Stuart Kauffman}

Hello, Stuart Kauffman

_{Daniel Witt
January 23, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

14}

Kauffman is one of the more interesting participants in the debates about the nature of life. 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

4}

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

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
September 29, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, airfoil, automobiles, beetle, cars, constraints, eyes, functional requirements, gills, intelligent design, Jaguar, Mustang, Paper Digest, peer-reviewed literature, Stuart C. Burgess, symmetry, tail}

Paper Digest: Application of Animal Forms in Auto Styling

_{Emily Reeves
September 29, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

The preeminence of design in nature and the utility of mimicking natural designs is a concept championed by the intelligent design community. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
December 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, "poor design", Abby Hafer, abuse, aesthetics, aging, breathing, choking, communication, constraints, degeneration, disease, epiglottis, esophagus, evolution, evolutionists, gastrointestinal system, intelligent design, larynx, lungs, multiple sclerosis, Nathan Lents, Parkinson’s disease, pharynx, respiratory system, singing, speech, stroke, syllogism, tongue, trade-offs}

The Supposed Bad Design of the Human Pharynx

_{Howard Glicksman and Steve Laufmann
December 14, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Science, Scientific Reasoning

15}

The pharynx affords us the abilities to breathe and swallow, but it does much more. It affords the ability for speech, language, and singing. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 3, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, components, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, constraints, design logic, engineering model, evolution, hook, intelligent design, manufacturing, navigation, propeller, proteins, requirements}

Bacterial Flagellum Demonstrates the Explanatory and Predictive Power of Engineering Models

_{Brian Miller
January 3, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Dean Schulz investigated the design of the flagellum with a method that could be described as groundbreaking. Read More ›

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Date
November 18, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, Baylor University, colony insects, computer engineering, computers, constraints, convergence, Darwinian processes, David Wolpert, Eric Cassell, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, No Free Lunch theorems, podcast, programmed behaviors, random changes, Robert J. Marks II, Rubik’s cube, teleophobia, William Macready}

How Convergent Animal Algorithms Challenge Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
November 18, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Eric Cassell discuss the No Free Lunch theorems of William Macready and David Wolpert, and the problem of blind searches for everything from Rubik’s cube solutions to the formula for WD-40. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 13, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, common ancestry, constraints, design logic, evolution, fossil record, four-bar linkage, intelligent design, jaws, macroevolution, operational gravity well, taxonomy, undirected evolution}

Studies on Labrid Fish Confirm Operational Gravity Well Model for Adaptation

_{Brian Miller
October 13, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

The extent to which the authors recognize the implications of their conclusions is difficult to say. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
September 30, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, constraints, ecosystem, Energy, entropy, evolution, friction, gravity, green energy, intelligent design, oxygen, photosynthesis, photovoltaics, sunlight}

Why Intelligent Design Can Help Develop Clean, Green Energy Solutions

_{Emily Reeves
September 30, 2021

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

3}

Photosynthesis has been criticized as inefficient. Why? Because it is assumed to be the product of a mindless evolutionary process. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
May 20, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, ARF, biological information, cancer, constraints, data compression, DNA, Erika DeBenedictis, evolution, genome, INK4a, intelligent design, MIT, mutations, open reading frames, optimality, overlapping genes, tumors}

Is the INK4a/ARF Overlap a Settled Example of Poor Design?

_{Emily Reeves
May 20, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Dr. DeBenedictis’s basic argument is that there is a section of the human genome where two genes overlap, both of which are important for suppressing tumors. Read More ›