Engineering – Page 5 – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

20Jul 2024 by Post

Sleeping and Waking: A Designer’s Gift

biology, Darwinian process, Engineering, eric hedin, Evolution, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, organisms, Podcast, push-pull principle, sleeping, wakefulness, waking

Some scientists have posited that organisms came prepackaged to sleep, and that we only needed to evolve wakefulness. Source

15Jul 2024 by Post

Eric Hedin on the Intelligent Design of Sleep

"survival of the fittest", Engineering, Evolution, fitness, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Neuroscience & Mind, Podcast, risk, science literature, sleep, systems, unconsciousness

“Survival of the unconscious…the most unconscious person wins…that just doesn’t seem to fit at all with an evolutionary survival of the fittest paradigm.” Source

21Apr 2024 by Post

The Panda’s Thumb: An Extraordinary Instance of Design?

Casey Luskin, design constraints, dexterity, efficiency, Engineering, Evolution, evolutionary processes, evolutionists, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, NOMA, non-overlapping magisteria, Panda's Thumb, philosophers, Podcast, precision, religion, science, Stephen Dilley, Stephen Jay Gould, theology, trade-offs

Optimizing a structure can sometimes come at the cost of certain design constraints. Source

30Mar 2024 by Post

Can a Successful Scientist Be Self-Taught?

atmospheric science, college, Darwinian evolution, Engineering, Evolution, Forrest Mims, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, inventors, Maverick Scientist, NASA, Podcast, science degree, science writers, Scientific American, skepticism, Technology

Without a college science degree, Mims taught himself the fundamentals of engineering and atmospheric science. Source

16Mar 2024 by Post

The Incredible Design of Muscles

Andrew McDiarmid, antagonists, biochemistry, circulatory system, Complexity, connective tissue, Engineering, Evolution, evolutionary mechanisms, Intelligent Design, Jonathan McLatchie, Michael Behe, muscle contraction, muscle fibers, muscles, nervous system, respiratory system, skeletal system, synergists, tendons

To understand the limitations of evolutionary mechanisms, we have to “bite the bullet of complexity,” as biochemist Michael Behe writes. Source

07Mar 2024 by Post

Up from Dawkins: Summer Seminars Were a Turning Point for Me

academics, alumni, biology, Center for Science and Culture, Colorado Springs, Discovery Institute, Education, Engineering, Evolution, evolutionary, Glen Eyrie Castle, Human Errors, Intelligent Design, mathematical biology, misinformation, molecular biology, Nathan Lents, paleontology, population genetics, professionals, researchers, Richard Dawkins, scientific enterprise, scientists, students, Summer Seminars, The Blind Watchmaker, Unlocking the Mystery of Life

I wanted to determine whether I was, as Richard Dawkins asserted, an accident of nature. Or was I created by God? Source

19Dec 2023 by Post

Brian Miller on the Gift of Vision

Brian Miller, Charles Darwin, Discovery Institute, Engineering, Engineering Research Group, Evolution, fine-tuning, human vision, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, Podcast, unguided processes, vertebrate eye, vision

Our eyes are easy to take for granted! Yet, the more we dig into this amazingly intricate system, the more thankful we become for them. Source

01Dec 2023 by Post

Liquid Harmony: How Our Bodies Manage Salt and Water

blood pressure, cell shrinkage, death, degradation, Engineering, Eric Anderson, health, heart, Howard Glicksman, human body, hypothalamus, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, kidneys, life, Medicine, Podcast, receptors, salt, sodium, sodium levels, sympathetic nervous system, water, water retention

Left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward degradation and death, not life. Source

30Nov 2023 by Post

The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering

articular bone, auricle, birds, cerebral cortex, ceruminous glands, cochlea, columella, deafness, ear, ear canal, eardrum, electrical signals, Engineering, equilibrium, fish, foresight, hair cells, hearing, Howard Glicksman, Human Origins, incus, Intelligent Design, malleus, middle ear, nasopharynx, natural selection, ossicles, outer ear, oval window, pinna, quadrate bone, reptiles, saccule, sound waves, stapes, Steve Laufmann, tectorial membrane, temporal bone, temporal lobes, tympanic membrane, utricle, vertebrates, vibrations, Your Designed Body

It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system. Source

27Oct 2023 by Post

Understanding the Biochemistry — and Intelligent Design — of Muscle Contraction

acetyl choline, acetylcholine, Actin, ADP, ATP, axon terminal, biochemistry, biology, calcium ions, electrical stimulation, endoplasmic reticulum, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, ion channels, motor neuron, muscle contraction, muscle fibers, muscle relaxation, muscles, myocytes, myofibrils, myosin, nerve impulse, neurotransmitter, polarization, repolarization, sarcoplasmic reticulum, sliding filament model, sodium ions, titin, transverse tubules, tropomyosin, troponin, undirected process

Muscle contraction, which we so easily take for granted, is an incredibly complex and elegant process. Source

Category: Engineering