Tag: dexterity

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Author
Stuart Burgess

Date
March 9, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, art, Claude Debussy, cooking, dexterity, evolutionary process, evolutionary theory, exoskeleton, fingers, fitness, Formula 1 race car, go-kart, hand muscles, human brain, Menahem Pressler, motor cortex, motor units, muscle units, muscles, music, nerve pathways, prosthetic device, skillful moving, surgery, survival, technology, tool-making, touch, typing, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

Fingers Are Fine-Tuned Far Beyond the Need for Survival

_{Stuart Burgess
March 9, 2026

Anatomy, Engineering, Intelligent Design

5}

Our exoskeleton could only make simple hand grips, far short of what a healthy human hand could manage. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
February 13, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ankles, biology, Boeing 747, brain, design framework, dexterity, engineers, evolutionary process, human body, human engineering, joint lubrication, knees, mathematics, mutations, Peter Sterling, prosthetic limbs, robotic limbs, robots, Simon Laughlin, Stuart Burgess, synovial fluid, technology, Ultimate Engineering, wiring}

Burgess: Design of Human Body Greatly Surpasses Human Engineering

_{Brian Miller
February 13, 2026

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Embracing the evolutionary narrative requires one to abandon one’s belief in mathematics. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 9, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, bamboo, Darwinian theory, dexterity, digits, engineering, giant pandas, GUT, ID the Future, intelligent design, mammals, microbiome, Panda's Thumb, podcast, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, wrist bone}

More Than a Thumb: Integrated Design in the Giant Panda

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 9, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Is the famous “panda’s thumb” evidence of unguided evolutionary processes, or is it a masterpiece of engineering. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 21, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Casey Luskin, dexterity, efficiency, evolution, evolutionary processes, evolutionists, ID the Future, intelligent design, NOMA, non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), Panda's Thumb, philosophers, podcast, precision, religion, science, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality, theology, trade-offs}

The Panda’s Thumb: An Extraordinary Instance of Design?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 21, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Optimizing a structure can sometimes come at the cost of certain design constraints. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen Dilley

Date
April 4, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, carnivores, common ancestry, dexterity, digits, economy, efficiency, evolution, evolutionists, intelligent design, leaves, mammals, Panda's Thumb, Religions (journal), Stephen Jay Gould, suboptimality}

Is the Panda’s Thumb Suboptimal?

_{Stephen Dilley
April 4, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

The basic argument is that “[o]dd arrangements and funny solutions” point to evolution whereas “ideal design” points to a “sensible God.” Read More ›

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Date
July 13, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, common descent, common design, dexterity, Eric Anderson, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, marsupials, placental mammals, vestigial structures, whales}

Pentadactyl Whale Flipper Is an Engineering Masterstroke

_{Science & Culture
July 13, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Does the five-digit design of the whale flipper, akin to the five-digit design of so many different kinds of animal limbs, point to evolutionary common descent? Read More ›