Tag: Stuart Burgess

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 22, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anatomy, biologists, biology, biomimicry, blood flow, brain, CELS, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, design reuse, Emily Reeves, engineering, Engineering Research Group, engineers, genetic profiles, genetic variation, genome architecture, Gerald Fudge, glycolysis, James Clayton Prize, James Johansen, living systems, macroevolution, Michael Egnor, microevolution, modularity, optimality, pathology, physicians, physiology, Research, robustness, Stuart Burgess, systems engineering, Texas A&M, theory of biological design, Windkessel}

Year in Review: Demonstrating the Power of the Intelligent Design Framework in Biology

_{Brian Miller
December 22, 2025

Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Our scientists and engineers have further laid the foundation for a comprehensive and actionable theory of biological design. Read More ›

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Arts
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arts Education Policy Review, autism, Bernhard Fink, brain, brain activity, break dancing, Charleston, Constantina Theofanopoulou, dance movement therapy, dancers, dancing, forethought, foxtrot, Health & Wellness, human uniqueness, humans, Kitsap Kats, line dancing, materialism, music, natural selection, neural signaling, neuroplasticity, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Parkinson’s disease, piano, Reductionism, Sadye Paez, Sandra Klaperski-van der Wal, Stuart Burgess, synchrony, Teresa Borowski, The Miracle of Man, Your Designed Body}

Designed to Dance? Here’s What Science Says

_{Tova Levengood
July 14, 2025

Arts, Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design

12}

Dancing is not a mere add-on feature that came a couple of mutations after mankind figured out how to shamble. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 19, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biological systems, biology, Brian Miller, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Darwinian assumptions, Discovery Institute, Emily Reeves, engineering, engineering principles, engineers, evolution, fish jaws, four-bar linkage, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, Research, scholars, scientists, Stuart Burgess, vertebrate limbs}

Advancing Biology Through an Engineering Lens

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 19, 2025

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

2}

I spoke with physicist Dr. Brian Miller about the fruitful research that can result when engineering principles are applied to the study of biological systems. Read More ›

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post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 8, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bamboo, clumsy, engineering, evolutionary biologists, geneticists, giant pandas, ID the Future, mammals, mechanical systems, paleontologists, Panda's Thumb, podcast, radial sesamoid, Stephen Jay Gould, Stuart Burgess, suboptimal, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, wrist bone}

Evolved or Engineered? A Geneticist Evaluates the Panda’s Thumb

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 8, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Giant pandas have an elongated wrist bone, the radial sesamoid, that allows them to handle and eat bamboo with great dexterity. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 4, 2024

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, computers, design motifs, evolution, human limbs, ID the Future, intelligent design, muscles, robotics, sensors, Stuart Burgess, vehicles, vertebrate limbs, whale flipper}

The Universal Optimal Design of Vertebrate Limbs

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 4, 2024

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

When we look at feats of human engineering, like vehicles, skyscrapers, and computers, we don’t doubt our intuition that they’re intelligently designed. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Brian Miller, diversity, epigenetic information, evolution, finch beaks, fitness landscapes, ID the Future, intelligent design, intermediates, life, mountains, optimality, podcast, Stephen Meyer, Stuart Burgess}

How Evolutionary Fitness Landscapes Bolster Design Arguments

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 27, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

Imagine a large area with gentle rolling hills and valleys, or perhaps a rugged terrain complete with steep mountains and impassible gullies. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 21, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, accuracy, bioengineering, control systems, evolution, flexibility, intelligent agents, intelligent design, limbs, nervous system, robots, sensors, stability, Stuart Burgess, vertebrate limbs}

Control Systems in Vertebrate Limbs Further Demonstrate that They Were Designed

_{Brian Miller
October 21, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Even if one limb suddenly transformed into another, the new limb would prove useless until its control system was entirely reengineered. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 16, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, bioengineering, durability, engineers, evolution, flexibility, human knee, intelligent design, joints, Nathan Lents, Sports, stress, Stuart Burgess, The Human Evolution Blog, tissues}

Stuart Burgess Overturns the Claim that the ACL Is Poorly Designed

_{Brian Miller
October 16, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

The explanation for ACL injuries is not poor design. Burgess noted in my interview with him that ACL tears were far less frequent in past centuries. Read More ›

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post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
October 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "poor design", animals, anterior cruciate ligament, Brian Miller, engineers, functions, ID the Future, Irreducible Complexity, joints, limbs, misuse, optimality, Stuart Burgess}

In Animal Joints, Multi-Functioning Challenges Evolution

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

Joints include good examples of irreducible complexity, such as the knee joint’s four bar linkage or the arched structure of the foot. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
September 6, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, common ancestry, environmental conditions, evolution, evolutionary change, fitness landscapes, intermediates, mutations, paleobiology, population, robotics, Stuart Burgess, traits, vertebrate limbs}

Fitness Landscapes Demonstrate Perfection in Vertebrate Limbs Resulted from Intelligent Design

_{Brian Miller
September 6, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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These observations present two dire challenges to undirected evolutionary models. Read More ›