Tag: touch

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Author
Stuart Burgess

Date
March 9, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, art, Claude Debussy, cooking, dexterity, evolutionary process, evolutionary theory, exoskeleton, fingers, fitness, Formula 1 race car, go-kart, hand muscles, human brain, Menahem Pressler, motor cortex, motor units, muscle units, muscles, music, nerve pathways, prosthetic device, skillful moving, surgery, survival, technology, tool-making, touch, typing, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

Fingers Are Fine-Tuned Far Beyond the Need for Survival

_{Stuart Burgess
March 9, 2026

Anatomy, Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Our exoskeleton could only make simple hand grips, far short of what a healthy human hand could manage. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 3, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, cells, endoplasmic reticulum, hammer, Immune System, intelligent design, ion channels, lysosomes, macrophages, membranes, mitochondria, organelles, physiology, Quartz, Science (journal), Science Advances, tissue, touch, Yale University}

Sense of Touch Is More Finely Tuned than We Thought

_{David Coppedge
April 3, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Like machines that deliver goods or open doors at the push of a button, mechanosensitive channels respond on contact. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Denton

Date
August 14, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, axon, central nervous system, heat, humans, intelligent design, Leon Kass, mammals, muscles, pain, touch}

A Crucial Design Difference in Vertebrate Nerves

_{Michael Denton
August 14, 2020

Intelligent Design

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Consideration of the basic characteristics of nerve impulse propagation suggests that the speed of conduction in mammals is close to the maximum possible. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
February 5, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, eyes, Geoffrey Simmons, hands, hearing, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, olfaction, salmon, senses, smell, sound, touch, vision}

Thanks, Dr. Oz — Our Favorite Super Bowl Ad, a Beautiful Celebration of Complex Senses

_{Sarah Chaffee
February 5, 2018

Intelligent Design

3}

Let’s examine the subject in a little more depth than what a commercial can do in a minute and thirty seconds: Read More ›

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Date
July 7, 2017

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, evolution, hands, Howard Glicksman, information, intelligent design, nerves, physiology, PNAS, sensors, skin, Steve Laufmann, touch, University of Chicago, University of Sheffield}

Design at Your Fingertips: Researchers Struggle to Model Sense of Touch

_{Science & Culture
July 7, 2017

Engineering, Intelligent Design

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Your hands feel in detail thanks to tens of thousands of sensors, and detailed information encoded by their positions and firing times. Read More ›

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Date
October 1, 2016

Categories
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, __nedited, Biomimetics, Geoffrey Simmons, prosthetics, qualia, Research, sensations, senses, touch}

How We Feel: The Sensation of Touch

_{Science & Culture
October 1, 2016

Intelligent Design, Technology

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We're now seeing attempts to mimic the natural phenomenon of touch in medical technology. Read More ›