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“poor design”

Tim Peake
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Photo: Tim Peake, by NASA/Timothy Kopra [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Case of Tim Peake Shows the Perils of “Awe”

Astronaut Tim Peake raised British eyebrows by seeming to endorse intelligent design. Read More ›
Denis
Photo: Denis Lamoureux at TEDxEdmonton (screen shot), via YouTube.

Denis Lamoureux on the God-of-the-Gaps Fallacy

The universe is like a musical instrument that was designed to interact with its designer. Read More ›
Joshua Swamidass
Photo: Joshua Swamidass, by permission of Dr. Swamidass.

Critic of Intelligent Design Acknowledges: “Bad Design” Arguments Don’t Work

It’s good to be able to report progress. Read More ›
sinuses
Photo credit (top): StewartENT, via Pixabay.

Nathan Lents Is Back; Still Wrong About Sinuses 

The interaction with Lents is of interest because it provides an opportunity to look again, in some detail, at a fascinating illustration of design in action. Read More ›
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Photo: A falcon’s eye, by Oussama dzlion [CC BY-SA 4.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

Modern Software and Biological Organisms: Object-Oriented Design

Let’s consider the eye, which is but one of many subsystems (along with the brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc.) in higher animals that coordinate their tasks to keep an organism alive. Read More ›
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Beating the Summer Heat — Thanks to Human Exceptionalism

It’s hot out. Be glad that you’re a human being, and not some other kind of mammal. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Tambako the Jaguar, via Flickr.

Giraffe Weekend: The Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

Darwinists have called it one of “nature’s worst designs,” “obviously a ridiculous detour,” asserting that “no engineer would ever make a mistake like that.” Read More ›
human eye
Photo credit: Free-Photos, via Pixabay.

Human Eye, that “Clunky Design,” to be Used to Confirm, or Disconfirm, Quantum Mechanics

It can detect a single photon. It can test the foundations of our understanding of nature. And it is also a piece of “botched” work by evolution? Read More ›
mouth
Photo credit: CarlottaSilvestrini, via Pixabay.

Oral Cavity’s Supposedly “Lousy” Design Is a Key to Human Speech

We’re constantly told that the design of the human larynx, trachea, and oral cavity is poor because it allows for choking on food. Read More ›
Appalachian Mountains
Photo credit: tonyleeglenn, via Pixabay. 

Beauty as Evidence for Intelligent Design

Beauty does not come from randomness. It is beauty, not ugliness that must be explained. Read More ›

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