Why Human Skeletal Joints Are Engineering Masterpieces, Pt. 1

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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On this ID the Future, Stuart Burgess, one of Britain’s top engineers, explains how the skeletal joints in the human body are masterpieces of intelligent design. He also responds to claims by some evolutionists that human joints are badly designed and supposedly evidence of Darwinian evolution’s blind trial-and-error process. This presentation was taped at the 2022 Westminster Conference on Science and Faith in the greater Philadelphia area, which was jointly sponsored by Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, and Westminster Theological Seminary. Here in Part 1, Burgess focuses on the ankle joint, showing that it packs an extraordinary amount of functionality into a small space, beyond anything human engineers have managed to achieve either in prosthetics or robotics.

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0:00.0	ID the future
0:05.0	future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Greetings I'm Tom Gilson. In today's I.D. the future we will hear part one of a talk on the superb engineering design of human joints.
0:22.0	It's given by one who should know. Stuart Burgess is a mechanical
0:26.1	and biomechanical engineer at Bristol University in Britain, a man at the top of his
0:31.8	field who has designed everything from bicycle
0:34.8	transmissions for Britain's gold medal winning Olympic bicycle team to
0:39.5	robotic arms for one of the largest satellites in the skies and he's won multiple
0:45.4	prestigious engineering awards along the way. In a way this is two talks in one
0:51.0	his topic today is the human ankle joint and he tells us in multiple
0:55.8	ways and with many superlatives how remarkably perfect is its design. Then he picks up
1:01.4	another theme as well, both here and in part two to come, in which he answers
1:05.9	claims by an American biologist Nathan Lentz, an evolutionist who says that, quote, no engineer would design joints the way the ankle
1:15.2	is and the wrist as well.
1:17.6	And when I say Burgess answers Nathan Lentz, I mean he really answers him. This talk was given at the 2022 Westminster Conference
1:26.8	on Science and Faith.
1:28.8	Thank you very much for your warm welcome. I was thinking of giving away some of the secrets to the Olympics
1:36.6	but now I know there's a team member from Team USA. I'm afraid I can't say anything
1:42.3	So I'm going to delete that from my talk.
1:45.8	It's really good to be here.
1:47.0	When my flight was cancelled on Thursday, I was seriously worried about not making it and apart from that there were a lot of
1:55.8	COVID forms to fill in and attestation form whatever that is. COVID certificates
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