And I would say engineering is full of mechanisms that required huge leaps of imagination and innovation.

And when I look at biology, I see the same.

It's full of irreducibly complex mechanisms that required great creativity, not some evolutionary process.

ID, the future. great creativity, not some evolutionary process.

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

Is life the result of purposeful design or unintended evolutionary accidents?

It's an ongoing debate that's about to be impacted by new scientific evidence that suggests living things are full of optimal engineering.

Welcome to Idea the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermid.

Today, I continue my conversation with award-winning British engineer and designer Stuart Burgess about his new book

Ultimate Engineering, which is chock-full of compelling examples of advanced structures and systems

in the human body and other vertebrates that go far beyond what humans have produced and point

to intelligent design, not the cobbled together results of a blind,

purposeless process.

Now, in case you don't know, Dr. Burgess is Professor of Engineering Design at the University

of Bristol.

He has published over 200 scientific publications on the science of design and engineering and biology.

In the last three Olympics, he was the lead transmission designer

for the British Olympic cycling team,

helping them on each occasion to be ranked in first place for track cycling.

For the last two decades, his gearboxes have been used successfully

on all the Large Earth Observation satellites of the European Space Agency.

He has received many national and international awards for design,

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