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Listen: “Design Errors” in the Human Body?

Nathan Lents often ignores something basic to engineering — the necessity of design tradeoffs. Read More ›
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New Book Offers a Fresh Test for Human Origins: Explain Your Own Body

Whatever other challenges it may introduce in our lives, money has this virtue: it doesn’t lie. Read More ›
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“Poor Design”? Human Skeletal Joints Demonstrate Engineering Genius

Stuart Burgess answers evolutionist Nathan Lents, who has argued that human joints are poorly designed. Read More ›
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Rabbi Adam Jacobs Talks with Michael Denton about Intelligent Design

Rabbi Jacobs, with the worldwide Jewish outreach group Aish HaTorah, makes a very thoughtful conversation partner for Dr. Denton. Read More ›
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Burgess: Claims of “Poor Design” in Skeletal Joints Are Based on Critics’ Lack of Training in Engineering

Burgess’s lecture confronts one of the most common abuses of science aimed at suppressing the evidence for design in biology. Read More ›
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Stuart Burgess Informs Evolutionist Nathan Lents on the Design Genius of the Ankle and Wrist

Darwinists have been led by their philosophy to misjudge human anatomy. Lents, in his fervor, “ignores biomechanics research,” “ignores engineering research.” Read More ›
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Brian Miller: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Engineering in the Biological Sciences”

Dr. Miller takes on a number of specific examples including the celebrated eyeless cavefish, which he “used to think was an absolute win for microevolution.” Read More ›
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Is Intelligent Design a Science Stopper?

Consider a box with an internal divider such that the box is divided into two separate compartments, A and B. Read More ›
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Why Junk Design Arguments Are Junk Science

Examples of so-called “convergent” evolution are ubiquitous, including the camera eye design shared by the squid and human. Read More ›
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Did Nathan Lents Refute Design?

Today our knowledge of the eye’s design is far more detailed. Particularly striking are the incredible mechanisms at the molecular level. Read More ›

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