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By Design

by Dr Jonathan Sarfati

Discovery of Design

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Darwin’s Black Box

by Michael J Behe

God the Master Designer DVD

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Our main Q&A (FAQ) Page

Design Features Questions and Answers

Key Articles

• A brief history of design (available in Spanish)
• Is the design explanation legitimate? (from Refuting Evolution)
• CMI’s views on the Intelligent Design Movement
• Argument: ‘Irreducible complexity’ (from Refuting Evolution 2).
• Responses to our 15 Questions: part 3
• Fossils Questions and Answers

‘Intelligent Design’ Movement: strengths and weaknesses

• Intelligent Design: why the fuss, and what s it about?
• Clarity and confusion: A review of The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism by Michael Behe
• Introduction to ID, warts and all: A review of A Biblical Point of View on Intelligent Design by Kerby Anderson

Scientists copying nature (biomimetics)

• Bombardier idea
• Fancy flying from advanced aeronautics: the design of swifts and jet fighters
• Dragonfly design tips
• Walking up walls: Insects inspire a better ‘sticky tape’
• Desert creatures inspire ‘SandBot’
• Copying God’s design: Biomedical engineers combine information from spiders and algae
• God’s webspinners give chemists free lessons
• Scientists finally copy Creator’s super-rubber
• Cuttlefish colour changes inspire new energy-efficient TV screen design
• Surveillance solution: mimicking a bug’s eye view
• Interview with Stuart Burgess, leader in biomimetics

What about claims of ‘bad design’?

• Argument: ‘Bad design’ is evidence of leftovers from evolution (from Refuting Evolution 2).
• Is our inverted retina really ‘bad design’?
• Backwardly wired retina an optimal structure : New eye discovery further demolishes Dawkins
• Fibre optics in eye demolish atheistic ‘bad design’ argument
• The Prostate Gland—is it ‘badly designed’?
• Rats! A toothless argument for evolution
• Is the human pharynx poorly designed?
• Recurrent laryngeal nerve

Flight

• 100 years of airplanes—but these weren’t the first flying machines!
• The evolution of feathers: a major problem for Darwinism
• Why a butterfly flutters by
• Going batty over evolution: Flexible, highly articulated wings leave bats without evolutionary ancestors
• Amazing discovery: Bird wing has leading edge technology
• Pterosaurs flew like modern aeroplanes
• Why a fly can fly like a fly
• The Hummingbird: God’s little miracle

Adhesives

• Great gecko glue?
• Snail trail
• Spectacular spider stickiness
• Startling stickiness: How ants and bees adhere with amazing machinery
• God’s amazing glue

Colours, patterns and camouflage

• Beautiful black and blue butterflies
• Butterfly brilliance: Dual diffraction gratings produce two colour signals
• ‘Impossible’ insects
• A coat of many colours: Captivating chameleons
• Fawn among the flowers
• The beauty of the peacock tail, and the problems with the theory of sexual selection

Locomotion

• Wheel comes poor second to frog legs
• Submarines with fish fins?
• Discovering the dolphin’s secret
• In leaps and bounds—the amazing jumping prowess of frogs and froghoppers
• Horse legs: the special catapult mechanism
• Critical characteristics and the irreducible knee joint
• Australia’s amazing kangaroos

Navigation

• The magnificent migrating monarch
• Moths navigating by the stars?
• Turtles can read magnetic maps
• Wings on the wind
• Ants find their way by advanced mathematics
• Dancing Bees
• Can it bee?
• Cows: a magnetic sign for evolutionists
• Bats: Sophistication in miniature

Super materials

• Amazing Abalone Armour
• Super shells (conches)
• Bridges and bones, girders and groans (Available in Spanish)
• Bone building: perfect protein
• Tooth enamel: sophisticated materials science
• Why nail biters don’t cry
• Sponge’s super spicules: fantastic fibre-optics
• A sweet revelation

Optics

• Lobster eyes—brilliant geometric design
• Excellent Eye: Better than any camera—the eye’s response to light
• Brilliant brittlestars: Entire skeleton forms one big compound eye
• The fish with four eyes
• Trilobite technology
• Four-eyed spookfish has mirror eyes

Energy

• Green power: God’s solar power plants amaze chemists
• God’s little green machines
• Electrical design in the human body

Biological ‘machines’ and other irreducibly complex mechanisms

• ATP synthase: majestic molecular machine made by a mastermind
• Bunchberry bang!
• The amazing motorized germ
• Even a tiny virus has a powerful mini-motor
• Shrimpy superboxer
• Pistol packing … Shrimp?!
• Venus flytrap: Ingenious mechanism still baffles Darwinists
• Fingertip control
• Olfactory design: Smell and spectroscopy
• Copy challenge

Symbiosis

• Sylvan symphony
• Orchids … a witness to the Creator
• Coral: animal, vegetable and mineral
• Ants: swarm intelligence
• Cleaner fish off the menu

More examples of design in animals

• Speedy sharks and golf balls
• Hummingbird hitch-hikers
• Camels: confirmation of creation
• Mary had a little lamb
• The mole
• Giraffes: animals that stand out in a crowd
• The bamboozling panda
• Peeping in on the thermometer bird
• The platypus
• Spectacular, surprising seals
• Sharks: denizens of the deep
• Skunks: lasting impressions
• Snakes alive!
• The amazing sea horse
• Amazing armoured armadillos of the Americas
• Toucan’s beak beats the heat

Related Q&A pages

• ‘Vestigial’ Organs
• Origin of Life
• Natural Selection
• Mutations
• Information Theory

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