10Mar 2026 by Post

Fingers Are Fine-Tuned Far Beyond the Need for Survival

anatomy, art, Claude Debussy, cooking, dexterity, Engineering, evolutionary process, evolutionary theory, exoskeleton, fingers, fitness, Formula 1 race car, go-kart, hand muscles, human brain, Intelligent Design, 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
Our exoskeleton could only make simple hand grips, far short of what a healthy human hand could manage. Source
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20Feb 2026 by Post

Listen: Stuart Burgess Details Examples of Your Body’s Ultimate Engineering

anatomy, Darwinian expectations, Engineering, Evolution, eye, habitats, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, lab coats, locomotion, middle ear, nervous system, origins, Richard Dawkins, scientific theories, structures, systems, theories of origins, Ultimate Engineering, wrist joint
He’ll relate the time he and famed biologist Richard Dawkins debated, and he’ll remind us why we are all qualified to evaluate scientific theories of origins. Source
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13Feb 2026 by Post

Burgess: Design of Human Body Greatly Surpasses Human Engineering

anatomy, ankles, biology, Boeing 747, brain, design framework, dexterity, engineers, Evolution, evolutionary process, human body, human engineering, Intelligent Design, joint lubrication, knees, mathematics, mutations, Peter Sterling, prosthetic limbs, robotic limbs, robots, Simon Laughlin, Stuart Burgess, synovial fluid, Technology, Ultimate Engineering, wiring
Embracing the evolutionary narrative requires one to abandon one’s belief in mathematics. Source
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12Feb 2026 by Post

Happy Darwin Day! Significance of New Book on Human Anatomy Cannot Be Overstated

"poor design", anatomy, biology, bridges, design logic, Duke University, dysteleology, Engineering, Evolution, human anatomy, human body, Human Errors, human spine, Intelligent Design, joints, knee, load-baring capacity, longevity, motion, Nathan Lents, optimal design, Steven Vogel, Stuart Burgess, suboptimal design, teleology, tinkering, Ultimate Engineering, upright walking, vertebral disks
Dr. Burgess's own research proved that knee joint geometry and supporting structures are optimally designed to achieve multiple objectives. Source
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10Feb 2026 by Post

Bad Design, or Ultimate Engineering? Two Views of Biology

Abby Hafer, aging, anatomy, arteries, bad design, biology, constraints, decay, Duke University, engineered systems, Engineering, European Space Agency, Evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary mechanism, foresight, Francois Jacob, fungi, genetic flaws, heart, Human Errors, human technology, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, joints, lubrication, Nathan Lents, reproduction, Richard Dawkins, Steven Vogel, suboptimal design, survival, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Not-So-Intelligent Designer, The Origin of Species, theistic design, tinkering, unintelligent design
An intelligent designer can employ foresight to envision a solution well beyond anything in existence at the time, and then set about making that a reality. Source
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22Dec 2025 by Post

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

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, Intelligent Design, 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
Our scientists and engineers have further laid the foundation for a comprehensive and actionable theory of biological design. Source
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22Aug 2025 by Post

In a Universe of Non-Living Matter, Communication Sets Us Apart

anatomy, auditory nerve, biochemistry, cochlea, communication, comprehension, ear, eardrum, eric hedin, expression, functionality, hair cells, hearing, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, lips, mouth, neurology, ossicles, pharynx, reception, speech, tongue, vocal cords
Communication is found across all life forms, from the signals sent by trees through fungal networks to the deep conversations we can have with each other. Source
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28Jun 2025 by Post

Learning About Biological Design from Human Art

anatomy, art, Complexity, designing process, electrical systems, fuel delivery, Icons of Evolution, ID The Future, intelligent agents, Intelligent Design, invention, Jody Sjogren, Jonathan Wells, Life Sciences, Machine-Living System Analogy, mind, natural world, Podcast, power plants, sensory systems, structural systems engineer, visual form
How does an intelligent agent go from idea to artifact? What can the process of art teach us about the evidence of design in the natural world? Source
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03Jun 2025 by Post

New Book, The Immortal Mind, Out Today — The Brain Can Be Split, but Not the Mind

anatomy, bone, brain, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, Denyse O'Leary, EEG machine, epilepsy, legs, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgery, pain medications, recovery room, seizures, skull, split-brain surgery, surgery, vital signs
Even when the brain is split in half, many important aspects of the mind remain unified. Thus, the mind is something that the brain isn’t. Source
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