Tag: Engineering
CELS 2021 — A Report from the Trenches
In this workshop-like setting, a group of 60 biologists, engineers, medical practitioners, and researchers from related disciplines assembled for three days.
Listen: Intelligent Design, Biomimicry, and Hacking the Cosmos
Dominic Halsmer draws on the engineering concept of affordances to explore how Earth shows evidence of having been intelligently engineered for life.
Dominic Halsmer: Aesthetic Arguments for Intelligent Design
How do modularity, specificity, adaptability, durability, and other aspects of engineering systems argue for design in nature?
Darwin’s Tree Morphs into a Network, with Implications for Intelligent Design
If lateral gene transfer is rampant throughout life, the universal tree of life becomes a matter of philosophical preference, not empirical demonstration.
Beautifully Engineered: Peer-Reviewed Paper Argues for Intelligent Design
Dominic Halsmer describes signs of engineering he sees in nature, and explains some of the ways the universe appears strikingly bio-friendly.