Design Features Questions and Answers

Survey

How does design provide evidence for a Creator, and is it enough?

• A brief history of design
• How would you answer: is there really a God?
• Is the design explanation legitimate?

What is the ‘intelligent design’ movement? Do the people in this group believe in biblical creation?

• CMI’s views on the Intelligent Design Movement
• Secular creation?
• The new anti-Darwinism—joys and dangers
• ID theorist blunders on Bible: Reply to Dr William Dembski

What about allegations of ‘badly designed’ features?

• See Q&A: Vestigial Organs
• Lunar eclipse, loony offerings
• The good, the bad and the evolutionary
• Where are the emperor’s clothes?
• Rats! A toothless argument for evolution

Astronomy

Are there special design features pointing to a Creator that are evident in the universe?

• The Angular Size of the Moon and Other Planetary Satellites: An Argument for Design (CRSQ35:23, 1998, Semi-technical)
• Created to spread the gospel
• Gravity: the mystery force
• The sun: our special star
• The Moon: The light that rules the night
• Neptune: Monument to Creation
• Revelations in the Solar System (Semi-Technical)
• Universe Finely-Tuned for Life
• Uranus: the strange planet
• The energy balance of uranus: implications for special creation (Technical)
• Venus — cauldron of fire (Semi-Technical)

Biology

Could the molecular intricacies of DNA and RNA, and other molecular machines, really have evolved by chance as evolutionists claim?

• Dazzling Design in Miniature (DNA, information storage/retrieval system)
• Decoding and editing design: double sieve enzymes (Technical)
• Designed by aliens?
• DNA computer milestone
• DNA: marvelous messages or mostly mess?
• The molecular sledgehammer (bacteria and blue-green algae)
• Living database
• Man’s achievements vs amazing ‘living computer’ technology
• Plankton’s powerful pogo
• The Marvelous ‘Message Molecule’
• World’s smallest compasses

What is ‘irreducible complexity’ in living organisms, and how does it offer supportive evidence for a created world?

• The Amazing Cell — evidence for creation and against evolution!
• Design in Living Organisms: Motors (Technical)
• Apoptosis: cell ‘death’ reveals Creation
• The amazing motorized germ
• Mutation and Design
• Fantastic voyage
• Even a tiny virus has a powerful mini-motor

Botany

What are some of the specially designed traits that can be found in plants?

• Green power: God’s solar power plants amaze chemists (Semi-technical)
• Flat leaves—a curly problem (Semi-technical)
• Venus flytrap: Ingenious mechanism still baffles Darwinists
• God’s little green machines
• Orchids … a witness to the Creator
• Pliable plants
• Splashing Success (fungi)
• Sylvan symphony
• Bunchberry bang!
• Letter to an atheist: A birdbox and a tree

Entomology

What are some design features in insects (and other invertebrates)?

• Amazing Abalone Armour
• Ants find their way by advanced mathematics (Semi-Technical)
• Ants: swarm intelligence
• Beautiful black and blue butterflies (Semi-Technical)
• Bees, Dancing
• Bees, flight and navigation (‘Can it bee?’)
• Bees, how they decide on quality of food source (‘How bees decide)
• Bombardier beetle, The amazing
• Bombardier idea
• Butterfly
• Copying God’s design: Biomedical engineers combine information from spiders and algae
• Coral: animal, vegetable and mineral
• Crayfish tail inspires Mars robot design
• Creation’s crustaceans
• Crustaceans (A few facts from under the rocks)
• Cuttlefish
• Damselfly, The acrobatic
• Dragonflies: astonishing acrobatics
• Ear now … An incredible design in a tiny fly is inspiring engineers (Semi-technical)
• Earthworms, Wonderful
• Fly (why a fly can fly like a fly)
• Froghoppers, the amazing jumping prowess of frogs and
• ‘Fungus’ that ‘walks’, The
• Giant squid
• God’s amazing glue (monogeneans)
• God’s webspinners give chemists free lessons
• Good design in miniature
• Hermit crabs, Those clever little
• Hitch-hiking insects
• Horseshoe crab
• Hoverflies, aces of the air
• ‘Impossible’ insects
• In leaps and bounds—the amazing jumping prowess of frogs and froghoppers
• Insects: Defying the laws of aerodynamics?
• Jellyfish
• Life at the extremes
• Living Lights (ICR Acts and Facts article)
• Lobster eyes—brilliant geometric design (Semi-Technical)
• Love trap (orchids and gnats)
• Magnificent migrating monarch, The (Semi-Technical)
• Monarch butterflies and navigation (Technical, PDF)
• Moths navigating by the stars?
• Octopus suckers: glowing in the dark
• Peripatus
• Praying mantis (ready to prey)
• ‘Primitive’ cell inspires advanced robot mini-sub
• Rare ‘Primitive Bugs’: Neither Primitive Nor Rare
• Rubber (Scientists finally copy Creator’s super-rubber)
• Sea horse, The amazing
• Sea dragons
• Shrimpy superboxer (powerful punch (and exquisite eyes) of mantis shrimp)
• Snail trail
• Sponge’s super spicules
• Startling stickiness: Designed that way
• Super shells
• Sweet revelation, A
• Termites, weird and wonderful
• Trilobite technology (Semi-technical)
• Walking up walls

Hydrology

How do the life sustaining properties of water give glory to a Creator?

The Wonders of water (Semi-Technical)

Human biology

How do the intricate design features of the human body rule out the possibility of evolution through ‘favorable mutations’ over millions of years?

• Appendix: it's there for a reason
• Blood types and their origins (Semi-technical)
• It’s in your blood (origin of blood groups)
• Bridges and bones, girders and groans
• Consciousness: evolutionary difficulties
• Electrical design in the human body
• Excellent Eye: Better than any camera—the eye’s response to light
• Eye, Darwin vs the
• An eye for detail
• Eye for creation, An: An interview with eye-disease researcher Dr George Marshall, University of Glasgow, Scotland
• Human body, God’s masterpiece
• ‘Inverted’ Retina: Is it really ‘bad design’? (Technical)
• Knee joint (Critical Characteristics and the Irreducible Knee Joint) (Technical)
• New twist on blood vessels
• Nail design (‘Why nail biters don’t cry’)
• Olfactory design: Smell and spectroscopy (Technical)
• Our brain
• Railroad wants monkey off its back
• Regenerating ribs: Adam and that ‘missing’ rib
• Seeing back to front
• Standing upright for creation
• Thermostat (Design — ‘Man Computerised Thermostat’)

Mathematics

Is there design in mathematics itself? What about chaos and fractals?

• Golden numbers: Mysterious numbers in nature
• Shapes, Numbers, Patterns, and the Divine Proportion in God’s Creation (ICR Impact article)
• Order or chaos?

Musicology

How did music and musical instruments originate?

• Music—evidence of creation

Zoology

What features in animals support the belief that they were created rather than the belief that they evolved (came about by natural processes)?

• Bird behaviour beliefs overturned
• 100 years of airplanes—but these weren't the first flying machines!
• Aim, spit and catch (archer fish)
• Air in the balance
• Amazing discovery: Bird wing has ‘leading edge’ technology
• Armadillo, The Wonderfully Made
• Australia’s amazing kangaroos
• Bat sonar points to creation!
• Bats: Sophistication in miniature
• Bears across the world!
• Beavers: Aquatic architects
• Bird, A wonderfully bizarre (American woodcock)
• ‘Bird of prey’ that's not, The (vultures)
• Birdbrains?
• Blown away by design: Michael Denton and birds’ lungs
• Bone building: perfect protein (osteocalcin design, technical)
• Brilliant brittlestars: Entire skeleton forms one big compound eye
• Camels: confirmation of creation
• A coat of many colours: Captivating chameleons
• Car-maker copies boxfish design
• Copy challenge
• Discovering the dolphin’s secret
• Dragons of Komodo Island
• Dugongs: ‘sirens’ of the sea
• Echidna enigma
• Eggs
• Elephants, Heard of?
• Fawn among the flowers
• Feathers, the evolution of: a major problem for Darwinism (Semi-Technical)
• Fibre optics in eye demolish atheistic ‘bad design’ argument
• Fish With four eyes, The
• Frogs: Jeremiah was not a bullfrog
• Frogs (and froghoppers), the amazing jumping prowess of
• Gecko foot design
• Giraffes — Animals that stand out in a crowd
• Giraffe’s neck: Icon of evolution or icon of Creation?
• Going batty over evolution
• Great gecko glue?
• Green islands
• Grouse, The remarkable ruffed
• Gooney bird: Created to fly
• How does a ‘box’ swim?
• Horse legs: the special catapult mechanism
• Hummingbird, The
• Hummingbird hitch-hikers
• Ichthyosaurs: created to live in the sea
• In leaps and bounds—the amazing jumping prowess of frogs and froghoppers
• Kangaroo rats
• Kangaroos: God’s amazing craftsmanship
• Mary had a little lamb
• Metamorphosis misnomer
• The mole
• Panda, the bamboozling
• Peacock tail, the beauty of the, and the problems with the theory of sexual selection (Technical)
• Peeping in on the thermometer bird
• Pinyon pines, pinyon jays
• Platypus
• Platypus: A freak, a fraud, and now a new finding
• Platypus, shock-billed
• Practical pouches
• Purple pearls of creation wisdom
• Rats can be cute, too!
• Rats: no evolution!
• Red panda
• Salmon, Pacific
• Saltwater platypus surprise!
• Seals, spectacular, surprising
• Sharks and rays
• Sharks: denizens of the deep
• Skunks: lasting impressions
• Snakes alive!
• Snake, to make a
• Sulawesi bear cuscus
• Tail for a whale, to make a
• Technology of flight, The
• Those bones
• Toucans — Strange, but special!
• Turtles can read magnetic maps
• Whales
• Who invented it first?
• Wings on the wind
• Submarines with fish fins?
• Bird behaviour beliefs overturned