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Author
John G. West

Date
December 10, 2021

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, books, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, educational outreach, engineers, evolution, Evolution News, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, Michael Denton, orcas, physicians, Richard Weikart, Stephen Meyer, Steve Laufmann, United Kingdom, YouTube videos}

Ever Thought You Could Change Someone’s Mind?

_{John G. West
December 10, 2021

Biology, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

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Iain was a diehard atheist from the United Kingdom. "I absolutely knew that I would never believe in a creator. It was inconceivable to me," he recalls. 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

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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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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
November 1, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, animal behavior, Baylor University, bees, biologists, birds, brains, Discovery Institute Press, engineers, Eric Cassell, evolution, intelligent design, Melissa Cain Travis, NASA, Robert J. Marks II, Science and the Mind of the Maker, systems engineering}

New Book, Animal Algorithms, Spells Fresh Trouble for Darwinism

_{Jonathan Witt
November 1, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The book is all about the buzzing, migrating, web-spinning, and colony-building world of ingenious animals. Read More ›

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Date
September 24, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, bacterial flagellum, biologists, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, engineering principles, engineers, Eric Anderson, ID the Future, intelligent design, podcast, Steve Laufmann, Systems Biology}

Engineers in the Systems Biology Revolution

_{Science and Culture
September 24, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Systems biology is taking the biological world by storm, an approach that treats biological systems as optimally or near-optimally engineered systems. Read More ›

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Date
September 23, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, algorithms, ants, arthropods, Caltech, Cornell University, Darwin's Doubt, engineers, evolution, intelligent design, mechanics, PNAS, soil, Stephen Meyer, superorganism}

Insects and Design: Ant and Honeybee Engineers

_{Science and Culture
September 23, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If you’ve ever watched ants busily tunneling in an ant farm, you may have noticed that the intricate finished product rarely collapses. Why is that? Read More ›

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Date
September 22, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, abdomen, Anomalocaris, aphids, arthropods, beetles, Berlin, bioengineering, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, chelicerates, crickets, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwin's Doubt, engineers, evolution, flies, gnats, honeybees, intelligent design, Marrella, MIT, PNAS, spider silk, spiders, Stephen Meyer, thorax, trilobites}

Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

_{Science and Culture
September 22, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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They appear in the early Cambrian fossil record: the first examples of the most diverse phylum on earth. Who knew their skills would become the envy of human engineers? Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, BIO-Complexity, chemotaxis, complexity, computer science, degradation, elegance, engineers, evolution, evolutionary biologists, filament, gears, gene expression, hook, intelligent design, peer-reviewed literature, proteins, Science (journal), stator, Waldean Schulz}

New BIO-Complexity Paper Details Complexity of Function and Assembly of Bacterial Flagellum

_{Casey Luskin
September 10, 2021

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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The author, Dean Schulz, an engineer with a PhD in computer science, takes a “bottom up” approach. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 31, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, adaptation, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, design logic, engineers, fitness, fitness landscape, genes, genotype, height, intelligent design, living systems, mutations, nanomachines, natural genetic engineering, operational gravity well, physiology}

Engineering Better Explains Adaptation than Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
August 31, 2021

Anatomy, Engineering, Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The genetic variation in any species is confined to a limited set of variables such as a finch beak’s thickness. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 30, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ATP, ATP synthase, biologists, computer engineers, Darwin Devolves, design logic, design motifs, Emily Reeves, engineers, evolutionary theory, fish, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Michael Behe, Rube Goldberg, silicon, space shuttle, System Modeling in Cellular Biology, vertebrate eye}

How Engineers Helped Save Biology from Evolutionary Theory

_{Brian Miller
August 30, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Design motifs such as four-bar linkages and control systems must meet exacting requirements whether implemented in a space shuttle or a fish. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
August 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", bioinformatics, biological structures, biologists, biosphere, Dan Graur, ENCODE, engineers, evolution, fitness landscape, human body, Human Errors, human genome, junk DNA, knee, Living with Darwin, Nathan Lents, optimality, pelvis, Philip Kitcher, scientific materialism, teleology, whales, Wikipedia}

Why Systems Biologists Now Assume Life Is Optimally Designed

_{Brian Miller
August 27, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Purported examples of poor design usually represent opinions resulting from armchair critics’ limited understanding of the technical literature. Read More ›