{"id":43587,"date":"2026-02-18T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/?p=43587"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:45:26","slug":"2176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/2176\/","title":{"rendered":"Bioengineer Stuart Burgess Reads From New Book Ultimate Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A good way to evaluate scientific theories of origins is to ask what we\u2019d expect to find if the given hypothesis were true and compare that to what we actually observe. Under a Darwinian explanation of life, we\u2019d expect to see designs cobbled together by a blind, undirected process, substandard designs that work but that, in the words of one scientist, wouldn\u2019t win any prizes at an engineering competition. But when we compare that expectation with the scientific evidence, they don\u2019t match up at all. On today’s ID The Future, award-winning British engineer and designer Stuart Burgess reads excerpts from his new book Ultimate Engineering<\/em>. He\u2019s going to share just enough with you today to whet your appetite for reading his book, which is chock full of evidence that humans and other organisms contain countless examples of not just so-so, not just good or very good, but optimal engineering in the design of systems and structures that keep living things alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, Burgess shares a few pages from the Introduction, explaining that there are two views in biology and that contrary to Darwinian expectations, intelligent design predicts superior design. Then he jumps into a few examples of that ultimate engineering, including the wrist joint, the middle ear, the eye, and the nervous system. Then he\u2019ll give you a sneak peak of a new way to understand the amazing diversity of living things we find on Earth: there\u2019s a theory that very adequately explains the extreme diversity of sizes, locomotion types, color-producing mechanisms, and habitats on display all around us. Finally, he\u2019ll share a few words about his own journey advocating for intelligent design: what he has learned about attitudes toward intelligent design and evolution on the ground, in the halls of academia. He\u2019ll briefly relate the time when he and famed biologist Richard Dawkins debated, and he\u2019ll remind us why we are all qualified to evaluate scientific theories of origins, not just the PhDs and researchers in lab coats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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