Tag: Engineering
The Panda’s Thumb: An Extraordinary Instance of Design?
Optimizing a structure can sometimes come at the cost of certain design constraints.
Ignorance of Evolutionary Theory as a “Superpower”
Early in her career, Celeste Nelson tried to publish a paper on chicken lung development. The reviewers were not very interested in her findings.
Can a Successful Scientist Be Self-Taught?
Without a college science degree, Mims taught himself the fundamentals of engineering and atmospheric science.
The DNA Replisome: A Paradigm of Design
One can hardly appeal to natural selection to account for the origins of DNA replication without assuming the existence of the thing one seeks to explain.
The Incredible Design of Muscles
To understand the limitations of evolutionary mechanisms, we have to “bite the bullet of complexity,” as biochemist Michael Behe writes.