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Paper Digest: Ten Biomechanical Animal Joints Enable Extreme Performance

_{Emily Reeves
December 19, 2023}

The amazing design structures in organisms provide engineers with inspiring templates for creating better products.

Paper Digest: A Robot Is Built Using Cockroach Biomimicry

_{Emily Reeves
October 26, 2023}

The understanding of what it takes to build complex systems sheds light on the causal hurdles that would be necessary for evolutionary processes to overcome.

Paper Digest: Biomimicry Uses the Design of Biological Organisms to Improve Human Technology

_{Emily Reeves
October 25, 2023}

Throughout this paper, Stuart Burgess emphasizes the supremacy of natural systems over human-engineered ones.

Paper Digest: What Mutation Accumulation Tells Us About Evolution

_{Emily Reeves
October 3, 2023}

Though more than a decade old, this work caught my attention for its possible relevance to our current experiences with COVID-19.

Paper Digest: The Cell as an Embedded Computing System

_{Emily Reeves
October 2, 2023}

This paper is an important illustration of how intelligent design theory can be applied at a high level in the academic setting.

Paper Digest: Application of Animal Forms in Auto Styling

_{Emily Reeves
September 29, 2023}

The preeminence of design in nature and the utility of mimicking natural designs is a concept championed by the intelligent design community.

Blood Viscosity and Freezing Temperatures — A Titanic Problem

_{Emily Reeves
June 22, 2023}

Blood viscosity is the technical reason why Jack froze in less than 23 minutes, but icefish can survive for 15 years in water of a freezing temperature.

New Book Puts Richard Dawkins’s “Selfish Genes” in the ICU

_{Emily Reeves
May 2, 2023}

Dr. Jarvis lays out numerous pieces of evidence that jeopardize Dawkins’s view that genes are selfish and act as the units of selection.

An Engineering Marvel: Uncovering the Mechanism of Respiratory Complex I

_{Emily Reeves
February 23, 2023}

Complex I is involved in the electron transport chain, which is part of the biochemical process by which we create ATP, the energy molecule of life.

Without Hemoglobin, How Do Icefish Survive the Cold? By Design

_{Emily Reeves
November 1, 2022}

Icefish, aka the family Channichthydiae, survive at 0oC in the Southern Ocean by maintaining blood viscosity at the set point of 3.27 centipoise.

Let’s Do Assumption-Free Science! Some Concluding Thoughts on Gutsick Gibbon’s Challenge

_{Emily Reeves
August 10, 2022}

What ID proponents are encouraging in the greater scientific community is honesty about the fact that both design and ancestry can create genetic similarity.

Yes, Winston Ewert’s Dependency Graph Is a Real Model

_{Emily Reeves
August 9, 2022}

The fact that known natural biological processes can produce non-tree-like patterns is problematic not for ID proponents but for proponents of common ancestry.

Just How Well Does That Cherry-Picked Data Fit an Evolutionary Tree?

_{Emily Reeves
August 8, 2022}

The tree-like pattern from the dataset was not very strong. Of course, if you shuffle it, it looks strong compared to randomness.

Why Their Separate Ancestry Model Is “Wildly Unrealistic”

_{Emily Reeves
August 5, 2022}

On Monday, I will look at the consistency of the phylogenetically informative sites for the Baum et al. (2016) paper. Spoiler alert: It looks like design.

I Got Critiqued by YouTuber Gutsick Gibbon

_{Emily Reeves
August 4, 2022}

Erika is pursuing her Master’s of Research in Primate Biology, Behavior and Conservation and is the creator of hundreds of punchy, entertaining YouTube videos.

Application of ID: Leveraging Design Triangulation to Anticipate Biological Redundancy

_{Emily Reeves
March 7, 2022}

In previous posts, I’ve covered how neo-Darwinism can make biological redundancy more confusing than it should be.

No More Confusion: Three Categories of Biological Redundancy, Simplified

_{Emily Reeves
March 4, 2022}

Rewriting the categories of biological redundancy in terms of function clarifies their purpose and contribution.

How Intelligent Design Clarifies Biological Redundancy

_{Emily Reeves
March 3, 2022}

ID licenses scientists to be curious about non-conserved biological redundancy and to investigate the possibility that biological redundancy is purposeful.

Do Statistics Prove Common Ancestry?

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2022}

Consider a scenario where there are three German Shepherds: a mother, her son, and a third that is a genetically engineered clone of the son.

#9 Story of 2021: Verdicts of “Poor Design” in Biology Have a Poor Track Record

_{Emily Reeves
December 24, 2021}

For years people cited the wiring of the vertebrate eye as evidence of “poor design” in biology.