Human Skeletal Joints—Engineering Masterpieces, Pt. 2

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Today’s ID the Future completes a talk by award-winning British engineer Stuart Burgess, who explains how the human ankle and wrist joints offer powerful evidence of engineering genius. Burgess is answering evolutionist Nathan Lents, who has argued that human joints are badly designed and, therefore, evidence against intelligent design and for Darwinian evolution’s blind trial-and-error process. According to Burgess, Lents ignores—and seems to be ignorant of—the many ingeniously engineered features of our joints, leading Lents to make easily refuted claims. For example, Lents says an ankle with fused bones would be a superior design to a healthy human ankle. Not if the person hopes to play squash or tackle any number of other activities that require the suppleness and responsiveness of Read More ›

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0:00.0	ID the future
0:05.0	future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Hello I'm Tom Gilson. Today on ID the future, British Biomechanical
0:17.4	engineer Stuart Burgess continues taking apart an evolutionist's
0:22.1	very bad anti-design argument by showing how extraordinarily
0:27.0	well human joints are put together.
0:30.4	Burgess has won multiple awards for his work in mechanical engineering, including transmissions
0:37.2	used on bicycles used by Olympic gold medal winning British Bicycle Teams and robotic mechanisms for Europe's
0:46.7	EnvySat Environmental Monitoring Satellite.
0:50.7	We join him here in the second part of the talk as he's wrapping up his comments on the superb design of the human ankle.
0:58.0	Next he'll turn to the multifunctional design excellence of the human wrist wrist and then he has some special
1:05.2	schooling to give a biologist who let his evolutionary philosophy take him to
1:10.8	places no actual science would ever go.
1:14.4	This talk comes from the 2022 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith.
1:20.4	Now I want to answer claims of bad design in the ankle joint because I've read Nathan Lentz
1:28.3	book and I've extracted a few quotations. The first one is the one I already showed. The ankle
1:35.4	contains seven bones, most of them pointless. Well why does he say that?
1:39.4	Evolutionary philosophy predicts bad design.
1:43.7	Because it predicts bad design, he can assume the ankle is badly designed,
1:47.3	because he assumes the ankle is badly designed, therefore the bones are pointless.
1:50.7	Do you see the logic assumption, assumption, just ignore biomechanics research, but as I've shown all seven bones have multiple functions.
2:01.0	Just to clarify this point, I've written the table.
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