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07May 2023 by Post

Sandgrouse Takes the Royal Society to Design School

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Episode guest Brian Miller talks with host Casey Luskin about the details of the ingenious design. Source

09Apr 2023 by Post

Engineering Principles Explain Biological Systems Better than Evolutionary Theory

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Hippocrates proposed in the late 5th or early 4th century BC a model for heredity and adaptation that Charles Darwin described as nearly identical to his own. Source

31Mar 2023 by Post

Dangerous Skating: Kauffman, Jaeger, and Roli on the Need for a New Teleology

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Openly breaking with naturalism can get one dispatched to the gulag of intelligent design. For most scholars, that is a one-way trip to academic Siberia. Source

23Feb 2023 by Post

An Engineering Marvel: Uncovering the Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I

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Complex I is involved in the electron transport chain, which is part of the biochemical process by which we create ATP, the energy molecule of life. Source

17Feb 2023 by Post

Where Biology and Engineering Intersect: CELS 2023 Applications Are Open Now!

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This is not a conference for listening to ID thought leaders (though many will be there), but an opportunity to jump in and become part of the conversation. Source

29Jan 2023 by Post

Mama Bear Apologetics Takes on Richard Dawkins

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Dawkins invokes the beautiful order evident in the murmuration of bird flocks as evidence that complexity can evolve from simple algorithmic rules. Source

18Jan 2023 by Post

Intelligent Design in Animal Self-Location and Navigation

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A question is whether such mechanisms exist in more ancient brain regions of other animals. A new study has identified a self-location mechanism in zebrafish. Source

14Jan 2023 by Post

Wesley Smith Asks, Is Your Body “Engineered”?

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Or did it evolve through impersonal and random processes over countless millions of years of natural selection? Source

10Dec 2022 by Post

Steve Laufmann: Is Biology Engineering?

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Laufmann describes how his work as a systems engineer relates to the red hot field of systems biology. Source

23Nov 2022 by Post

“Poor Design”? Actually, the Human Body Is Amazing; Here’s Why

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If someone suggests that a coherent, interdependent system of systems arose by chance, they’ll need to back that up with a detailed engineering analysis. Source