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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

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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

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

Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

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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, 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, intelligent design, living systems, mutations, nanomachines, natural genetic engineering, 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, Darwin Devolves, design logic, design motifs, Emily Reeves, engineers, evolutionary theory, fish, intelligent agents, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Michael Behe, Rube Goldberg, silicon, 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, biologists, biosphere, Dan Graur, ENCODE, engineers, evolution, fitness landscape, human body, Human Errors, human genome, junk DNA, Nathan Lents, optimality, pelvis, 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 ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 17, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", basketball, bioengineering, diseases, Emily Reeves, engineers, Erika DeBenedictis, evolution, gene editing, genome, intelligent design, materialism, MIT, TEDx talk}

Exploring a TEDx Talk that Argues Biology Is “Imperfect” with “Gigantic Mistakes”

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June 17, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Proponents of intelligent design would agree that biology is imperfect and biomedicine should be encouraged to cure diseases and fix problems. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 16, 2021

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, CELS 2021, Center for Science and Culture, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, DNA, engineers, evolutionists, feedback loops, Jonathan Bartlett, junk DNA, logic gates, Mind Matters, Systems Biology}

What Biologists Can Learn from Engineers, and Vice Versa

_{David Klinghoffer
June 16, 2021

Biology, Intelligent Design

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If biologists had thought more like engineers, stumbling into the myth of "Junk DNA" might have been avoided. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 14, 2021

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, antibiotic resistance, bacteria, biologists, Carolyn Hovde, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, E. coli, engineers, ID the Future, intelligent design, Journal of Bacteriology, Long Term Evolution Experiment, LTEE, Michigan State University, Neo-Darwinism, Richard Lenski, Scott Minnich, University of Idaho}

Biologist Dustin Van Hofwegen Punctures Claims for Lenski’s Long-Term Evolution Experiment

_{Jonathan Witt
June 14, 2021

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Perhaps the biggest evolutionary development in the course of the experiment involved some bacteria beginning to feed on citric acid. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 14, 2021

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biologists, Cambridge, cells, CELS 2021, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, engineers, evolution, Evolution News, intelligent design, living systems, medical practitioners, Nature (journal), Nature Communications, Paul Nelson, researchers, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, unguided evolution, William A. Dembski}

Nelson: Evolution Morphing into Intelligent Design?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 14, 2021

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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An “engineering theory of evolution” might be one way of expressing what the ID proponents who participated in the CELS event were seeking. Read More ›