#Intelligent Design

[triumph-of-adaptation]

The woodpecker’s tongue is one of nature’s most astonishing adaptations. Far longer than its beak, the tongue extends back into the skull, wrapping around it—sometimes even looping over the top and around the eye socket. This isn't just to catch insects buried deep within tree bark; it's also a vital piece of shock-absorbing anatomy. As the bird slams its beak into wood at speeds of up to 20 times per second, the tongue’s unique path acts like a biological seatbelt, distributing impact forces and helping to protect the brain from trauma. This remarkable design, supported by a specialized structure called the hyoid apparatus, allows the woodpecker to perform its relentless pecking without suffering concussions—a feat no human could match unprotected.

[vieformidable]

Bagworm moth caterpillar collects and cuts tiny sticks to build a tiny log cabin to live in! '

This young engineer is an example of the greatness of the natural world and some crazy-ass creator!

[stra-tek]

Star Trek out there making Intelligent Design canon

And then a few years later deciding that Salamanders are humanity's ultimate evolutionary form

[wayti-blog]

"Why does nature love spirals? The link to entropy"

"There are moments in the history of human thought when a simple realization transforms our understanding of reality. A moment when chaos reveals itself as structure, when disorder folds into meaning, and when what seemed like an arbitrary universe unveils itself as a system governed by hidden symmetries.

Credit: Ahmed Farag Ali and Aneta Wojnar

The Bekenstein bound was one such revelation—an idea that whispered to us that entropy, information and gravity are not separate but rather deeply intertwined aspects of the cosmos. Jacob Bekenstein, in one of the most profound insights of modern physics, proposed that the entropy of any physical system is not limitless; it is constrained by its energy and the smallest sphere that can enclose it.

This revelation was radical: Entropy—long regarded as an abstract measure of disorder—was, in fact, a quantity deeply bound to the fabric of space and time. His bound, expressed in its simplest form, suggested that the total information that could be stored in a region of space was proportional to its energy and its size."

"This (...) tells us that what we have long regarded as uncertainty is, in fact, structure. The apparent randomness of quantum mechanics is not a defect of nature but a signature of an underlying order. The transformation of the uncertainty principle from an inequality into an equality suggests that space and time are not continuous in the way we imagined but are shaped by toroidal constraints.

This has far-reaching consequences, not only for physics but for our understanding of the universe itself. The toroidal motion of hurricanes, the curvature of ocean waves, the patterns of electromagnetic fields, and even the structure of subatomic interactions all reflect this fundamental principle. There is something universal about the spiral, something embedded in the way energy, matter and space evolve. The torus is not merely a shape; it is the embodiment of motion, of evolution, of time itself."

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[biologist4ever]

[greenapricot]

"I hope you don't feel it's been a waste, being my boss training me up. Because I've appreciated it."

"It wasn't a waste. It was a pleasure."

"Thank you, sir."

"You're all right. And it's Robbie."

"Thank you, Robbie."

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[breaking-noose]

The top image is a graph of the first nine harmonics of a harmonic series. The bottom image is an x-ray of the inner structure of a conch shell.

[corin-tuckers-left-one]

I just think homology obliterates intelligent design purely because structures that serve radically different functions have exactly the same parts in them and yet structures with the same function are composed of totally different parts.

Why do whales have finger bones?? What could they POSSIBLY need them for?? Primates use them to grasp, carnivorans use them for walking and running. In whales they're still there but hidden uselessly inside flippers.

Why are bird wings so different from bat wings if they're both used for flying?? Why are both of these completely different from insect wings??

Why do ALL of these except insects have the same layout of bones?? Humerus, radius + ulna, carpals and metacarpals.

It's like building planes out of boat parts.

[black-atheists]

[exit-babylon]

[oldfatwarlock]

“Intelligent design,” I think as I sniffle and almost choke to death on my own mucus.

[stra-tek]

Remember that time Star Trek went full-on ancient aliens and intelligent design?

[wayti-blog]

The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.

- Plotinus

[biologist4ever]

[greenapricot]

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[eltristanexplicitcontent]

Why Do People Laugh at Creationist (Part 48)