Tag: navigation

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 4, 2026

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, ants, armadillos, bears, beavers, biomechanics, biosphere, birdsong, blue whales, coloration, dinosaurs, dolphins, dragonflies, echidnas, echolocation, engineering, giant sequoia trees, giant squid, habitat, hedgehogs, intelligent design, kraken octopus, lions, locomotion, materials, migrators, minisaur, monotremes, Museums Victoria, navigation, platypus, pterosaurs, sharks, sloths, structures, Stuart Burgess, Trichogramma, Ultimate Engineering, University of Regensburg, wasps, water, whale sharks, wooly mammoths}

Life at the Limits of the Possible

_{David Coppedge
June 4, 2026

Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Stuart Burgess suggests that organisms at the extremes not only exemplify ultimate engineering but specifically point to theistic design. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
December 8, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, amphibians, bacteria, birds, complexity, cryptochromes, electrons, fish, insects, intelligent design, magnetic compass, magnetic field, magnetite, magnetoreception, mammals, Monarch butterflies, navigation, reptiles, Science (journal), vertebrates, zoology}

Three Animal Magnetic Compass Mechanisms, All by Design

_{Eric Cassell
December 8, 2025

Intelligent Design, Zoology

8}

It appears likely that different animals are designed to detect the geomagnetic field using different mechanisms. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
October 8, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, algorithms, Australia, compass, Drosophila melanogaster, fruit flies, intelligent design, Milky Way, Monarch butterflies, moths, navigation, polarization}

Animal Algorithms: Moth Celestial Navigation

_{Eric Cassell
October 8, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

8}

The origin, genetic inheritance, and how such algorithms are programmed in the brain remains a mystery. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, biology, brain, Cambridge University, cell, decision-making, food, French National Centre for Scientific Research, information, memory, navigation}

Slime Mold: Thanks for the Memories

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 17, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

10}

In recent decades, researchers have been learning about memory in slime molds which have neither a brain nor neurons. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
April 23, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, birds, compass, intelligent design, magnetic field, magnetoreception, memory, migration, Nature (journal), navigation, sea turtles}

Sea Turtles and Their Trusty Magnetic Compass

_{Eric Cassell
April 23, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

5}

All of these elements exhibit specified complexity that is indicative of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 3, 2025

Categories
Applied Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abortion, Animal Algorithms, bacterial flagella, Biomimetics, cable bacteria, centrioles, Current Biology, Darwinism, Discovery Institute Press, engineers, Eric Cassell, evolution, fetuses, Harvard University, intelligent design, Living Waters, mantis shrimp, materials science, Michael Behe, molecular machines, navigation, New Scientist, nose, PNAS, sea turtles, sophistication, springtails, super-resolution microscopy, University of North Carolina, University of Oldenburg}

As Science Observes, Talk of Evolution Fades

_{David Coppedge
March 3, 2025

Applied Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Another point worthy of note: the more sophistication that is found in biological engineering, the more scientists want to imitate it. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
November 14, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brains, C. elegans, coherence, complexity, cortex, crystals, efficiency, fruit flies, intelligent design, morphology, mouse, navigation, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, optimization, pheromones, Research, specified complexity}

Design, Engineering, Specified Complexity: Appreciating the Fruit Fly Brain

_{Eric Cassell
November 14, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

Groundbreaking new research has documented the complexity and design of the brains of fruit flies. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
May 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, birds, causality, diabetes, dispositionalism, hemoglobin, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, materialistic science, medicine, Michael Behe, migration, nature, navigation, powers, realism, science of purpose, scientific inquiry, Thomas Aquinas, UV light, water}

Powers Ontology: Overcoming the Limits of Reductionist Materialism

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
May 15, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Reductionism is a method for understanding something by minimizing it to a very simple level that can be restricted to abstract language. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
May 9, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, behavior, Biola University, biological systems, chemotaxis, David Klinghoffer, design logic, ID 3.0, intelligent design, methylation, misinformation, navigation, peer-reviewed literature, phosphate, Research, structure, systems engineering}

Peer-Reviewed Paper Applies Systems Engineering to Bacterial Chemotaxis

_{Brian Miller
May 9, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

The article further demonstrates how only a design-based framework yields significant insight into the higher-level organization of biological systems. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
April 16, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, brain, Current Biology, distance, geometry, gravity, hive, honey bees, information processing, Lars Chittka, navigation, Neural Networks, waggle dance}

New Study Reveals Secrets of Honey Bee Waggle Dance

_{Eric Cassell
April 16, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

4}

There are several factors that make detecting direction challenging for the observing bees. One is that the dances take place inside a dark hive. Read More ›