Design in Nature

Sixth Senses in Animals

Our five senses cannot detect everything. The world is full of information beyond our reach, but many animals have “sixth senses”—super senses that enable them to experience other dimensions of our world. These bonus senses help these creatures survive and thrive in their habitats.

Amazing Design in Cells

If our genes and cells arose randomly through competition for supremacy, then how can we explain so many wonderful processes where cells are programmed to sacrifice themselves for the good of the whole, especially during development?

Divinely Designed Defenses

The defense mechanisms of just about every group in the animal kingdom could provide us with a lifetime of enjoyable study. It appears that these abilities were genetically present in the original creatures, but activated after Adam sinned, when God cursed the creation.

Horse Leg Bones

At first glance, horse legs appear to be poorly designed. Taking a closer look at the equine leg bone, however, scientists have discovered unexpected features that give it amazing strength and may inspire new engineering ideas.

Articles About Design in Nature

  • June 7, 2009 from Answers Magazine

    The Curse ushered in a brutal world of animals hunting and killing each other to survive.

  • The D(esigned)-Word
    May 9, 2009 from News to Know

    An element of nature “designed”—a slip-up or a rare admission?

  • A Fly’s Nervous System Aids in Flight
    Aug. 2, 2008 from News to Know

    No wonder houseflies can be so difficult to target: their guidance-control systems are sophisticated enough that they may inspire improvements to control systems in autonomous air vehicles.

  • The Gecko Tail and Its Feats
    March 22, 2008 from News to Know

    Regardless of the attention given to those clingy gecko feet, gecko tails play an important role in keeping the mobile little creatures agile.

  • Admitting Design
    Feb. 26, 2008

    Kenneth Miller, a Brown University cell biologist and professing Catholic who is one of evolution’s most vocal defenders, says it’s time for evolutionists to “reclaim the language of ‘design.’”

  • Tortoise Shell Rights Itself
    Nov. 3, 2007

    Everyone knows that tortoises aren’t exactly nature’s most agile creatures. The plodding manner of the reptiles is fabled, and we haven’t heard of any arrests for illegal tortoise fighting.

  • Amazing Design: Scuba Spiders
    Sept. 1, 2007

    A unique type of spider that spends its entire life underwater uses silk to spin personal “scuba tanks” for various purposes, including oxygen supply.

  • Self-Cleaning Lotus Leaves
    Jan. 20, 2007

    Two part design ensures lotus leaves are clean.

  • Bat Wings: Efficiency in Motion
    Jan. 20, 2007 from News to Know

    The second of three design-in-nature articles this week highlights the amazing flight maneuvering capabilities of bats.

  • Technical Research Paper
    Preliminary Observations of the Pygidial Gland of the Bombardier Beetle, Brachinus sp.
    April 1, 2003, pp. 95–102

    In this study the pygidial gland and nozzle of one species of Bombardier Beetle is studied under light and electron microscopy (SEM and TEM) and are shown to be quite complex.

  • Magazine Article
    God’s Amazing Glue
    March 1, 2002, pp. 27–28

    It’s only when our technology begins to get close to God’s that we start to understand the “marvellous” designs that He has used!

  • Magazine Article
    Electrical design in the human body
    Dec. 1, 1999, pp. 43–45

    In the last century, our society’s dependence on electricity and all the devices associated with it has grown phenomenally.

  • Magazine Article
    Blown Away by Design
    Sept. 1, 1999, pp. 14–15

    Michael Denton’s book “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis” has exposed thousands to the overwhelming scientific problems of Darwinian belief.

  • Magazine Article
    Dazzling Design in Miniature
    Dec. 1, 1997, pp. 6–7

    The cells of the human body can produce at least 100,000 different types of proteins, all with a unique function. The information to make each of these complicated molecular machines is stored on the well-known molecule, DNA.

  • Magazine Article
    Mount Rushmore ... Evidence of Design
    March 1, 1996, pp. 19–20

    Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, USA, is a spectacular memorial to four United States Presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

  • Magazine Article
    Rotary Engines
    Dec. 1, 1992, pp. 23–24

    Rotating devices, such as wheels, gears and rotary motors do not seem to feature in the natural world of living things. Evolutionists would claim that they know why.

  • Magazine Article
    Discovering the Dolphin’s Secret
    March 1, 1992, pp. 24–25

    When man discovered the dolphin’s secret, they tried to copy it! Such an ingenious design owes its origin to God, the Master Designer. The real patent belongs to Him!

  • Magazine Article
    Not of Cabbages and Kings
    March 1, 1991, pp. 18–20

    Have you ever noticed that when one considers two apparently different items, any characteristics they do hold in common can also be found in a wide variety of other things?

  • Magazine Article
    Hands and Evolutionary Proof
    Sept. 1, 1990, pp. 9–10

    Attempts to build better mechanical hands have shown experts how incredibly complex is the real human hand.

  • Magazine Article
    Design—“Man Computerised Thermostat”
    Jan. 1, 1983, pp. 3–4

    Man possesses a complicated temperature control system. It is in reality an automatic, computerised thermostat which works day and night to keep man’s body at approximately 36.8 C or 98.4 F.

  • Magazine Article
    The Technology of Flight
    Nov. 1, 1980, pp. 10–11

    Many of our textbooks suggest that it is man’s superior intelligence which has enabled our species to modify the environment by technological innovations and so give us some control of our evolution.

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