The intelligent design paradigm predicts that biology will not be found to be routinely

characterized by bad design.

As with human designers, an intelligent designer of the natural world, would not face the key

constraints faced by the evolutionary process.

ID, the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

A good way to evaluate scientific theories of origins

is to ask what we'd expect to find if a given hypothesis were true,

and then compare that to what we actually observe.

Under a Darwinian explanation of life,

we'd expect to see designs cobbled together by a blind, undirected process,

substandard designs that work,

but that in the words of one scientist wouldn't win any prizes at an engineering

competition. The problem with this view is that it doesn't match up with the scientific evidence.

Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermid. Today, award-winning British engineer

and designer Stuart Burgess reads excerpts from his new book,

Ultimate Engineering. He's going to share just enough with us today to wet 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.

Now first, he's going to share a few pages from the introduction, explaining that there are

two views in biology, and that contrary to Darwinian expectations, intelligent design actually

predicts superior design. Then he's going to jump into a few examples of that ultimate engineering,

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