Creation and Adaptations
Recent research reveals creatures’ innate abilities to “read” changes in their environments and automatically adapt to them. ICR’s engineering-based biological model called continuous environmental tracking (CET) describes how creatures track and adjust to changing conditions not by accident but by foresight.
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How do creatures adapt?
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Why do we need a new theory of biological design?
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Can nature really sort, select, or save traits over time?
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How do creatures’ bodies make automatic adjustments?
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What does continuous environmental tracking (CET) mean for Darwinian ideas?
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Why Biology Needs a Theory of Biological Design—Part 1
Anyone who watches American football has observed a predictable inconsistency. When a pass is caught extremely close to the sideline, everyone with the offense immediately makes the arm signal for a completion, while those with the defense signal an incomplete pass. This is a great example of how opposite interpretations of the same observation can be reached by two people with contrary starting positions. It also helps explain the root cause of the creation-evolution controversy.”
Why Biology Needs a Theory of Biological Design—Part 2
But there was another influence. I knew that the theory was accepted by educated people. In my mind, it was absolutely settled science. As far as I knew, it was only rejected by blind, backward religious types. To me, scientists had thoroughly thrashed theologians by demonstrating that “science” is the solitary vehicle to convey truth. Like millions of others, I was seduced. Evolutionary theory fits like a key in the deadbolt of human pride to lock up minds.
Why Biology Needs a Theory of Biological Design—Part 3
Charles Darwin was a master of exploiting the power of a familiar narrative while at the same time flipping the script. Before developing evolutionary theory, he was an astute student of both the design process and 19th-century theologian William Paley’s arguments for creatures being intelligently crafted by God. Darwin knew that the first step in supplanting a theory was to thoroughly understand it.
Why Biology Needs a Theory of Biological Design—Part 4
ANobel Prize-winning German physicist Max Planck perceptively observed that “if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”1 That pithy statement sums up one reason why scientific theories are crafted. Theories shape the way people look at, think about, or understand things in nature.
Engineered Adaptability: Continuous Environmental Tracking Wrap-Up
For the past two years, the Engineered Adaptability series of articles has explored ways in which scientific methodology and understanding benefit when engineering principles are applied to how living things function. In the process, we have built a conceptual framework for a design-based model called continuous environmental tracking (CET)...
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