Tag: Nathan Lents
The Supposed Bad Design of the Human Pharynx
The pharynx affords us the abilities to breathe and swallow, but it does much more. It affords the ability for speech, language, and singing.
The Human Body Handles Its Supply Chain Beautifully. Why Can’t Humans Do the Same?
We’ve lived for a couple of years now with the supply chain disaster, generated by COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
Listen: “Design Errors” in the Human Body?
Nathan Lents often ignores something basic to engineering — the necessity of design tradeoffs.
New Book Offers a Fresh Test for Human Origins: Explain Your Own Body
Whatever other challenges it may introduce in our lives, money has this virtue: it doesn’t lie.
“Poor Design”? Human Skeletal Joints Demonstrate Engineering Genius
Stuart Burgess answers evolutionist Nathan Lents, who has argued that human joints are poorly designed.