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Intelligent Design the Future

Ultimate Engineering: An Interview with Bioengineer Stuart Burgess

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Society & Culture, Science, Astronomy, Life Sciences, Philosophy

4.31K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Evolutionary theory predicts a living world crowded with substandard designs. But as today’s guest reveals, the latest science has discovered just the opposite—designs so advanced they are at the limit of the possible, precisely as proponents of the theory of intelligent design have anticipated. On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes to the show award-winning British engineer and designer Stuart Burgess to begin a two-part conversation with me about the extraordinary engineering feats of the human body: ingenious systems and devices that demonstrate what Burgess calls Ultimate Engineering. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Look for Part 2 in a separate episode!

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0:00.0

What I've learned in the last 30 years is that evolution paradigm is kept going, not by

0:08.0

scientific evidence, but by religious devotion to naturalism, that prior commitment to a naturalistic

0:16.0

worldview.

0:17.0

And I think it's very sad because science should be open.

0:28.9

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

0:36.7

Evolutionary theory predicts a living world crowded with substandard designs. But as today's guest will reveal, the latest science

0:38.8

has discovered just the opposite. Designs so advanced, they're at the limit of the possible,

0:44.8

precisely as proponents of the theory of intelligent design have anticipated. Welcome to Idy

0:50.2

the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott. And it's my pleasure today to welcome to the show

0:55.7

award-winning British engineer and designer Stuart Burgess to begin a two-part conversation with me

1:01.7

about the extraordinary systems and devices that demonstrate where Burgess calls ultimate engineering.

1:08.5

Now, if you don't know Dr. Burgess yet, let me just fill you in on

1:11.2

some of the details. He is Professor of Engineering Design at the University of Bristol. He has

1:16.5

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

1:22.8

In the last three Olympics, he was the lead transmission designer for the British Olympic cycling team,

1:28.3

helping them on each occasion to be ranked in first place for track cycling. For the last two

1:33.4

decades, his gearboxes have been used successfully on all the large Earth observation satellites

1:38.7

of the European Space Agency. He has received many national and international awards for design, including from the

1:45.5

Minister of State for Trade and Industry in the UK. In 2019, he was given the top mechanical engineer

1:51.9

award in the UK out of 120,000 professional mechanical engineers. And he has been an invited

1:58.9

speaker in over 30 countries. Stuart, welcome to ID

2:02.6

the Future.

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