Design in Nature

Articles About Design in Nature

• Magazine Article

  Beauty—The Undeniable Witness

  

  Jan. 4, 2024 from Answers Magazine

  God made his handiwork so clear that even a child can see it (Romans 1:18–20). The beauty of his work is inescapable—and an undeniable witness to his existence.

• In-Depth Article

  Biological Gears Discovered in Leafhoppers

  

  April 6, 2021 from Answers in Depth

  Cambridge researchers discovered functioning mechanical gears in juvenile leafhoppers as “training wheels,” showing that God created gears long before humans.

• Magazine Article

  Sixth Senses in Animals

  

  Oct. 18, 2020 from Answers Magazine

  We’ve all heard about “the five senses”—sight, taste, touch, smell, and hearing. But are there other ways to experience the world?

• Magazine Department Article

  What Can We Learn about God from Creation?

  

  July 1, 2019 from Answers Magazine

  Nature reveals so much more about God’s character than a few hints we might easily overlook.

• Magazine Article

  Blubber Gloves

  

  March 6, 2016 from Answers Magazine

  God designed a clever coat of insulation that makes life a breeze for animals that call the arctic their home.

• Magazine Department Article

  Colors on Our Creator’s Canvas

  Jan. 1, 2016 from Answers Magazine

  God brushed the canvas of His creation in colorful strokes that could only have come from His hand.

• Semi-Technical In-Depth Article

  God’s Design for Bioluminescence

  

  May 28, 2015 from Answers in Depth

  Bioluminescence helps many animals hunt, hide, or reproduce, and it remains a riddle for evolutionary scientists.

• The Evolutionary Problem of Feedback Mechanisms

  Dec. 26, 2014

  One of the things that becomes a total contradiction to the proposition of biological evolution is the reality of feedback.

• In-Depth Article

  Caffeine: Convergently Evolved or Creatively Provided

  Sept. 20, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Did caffeine evolve again and again or did our Common Designer provide many plants with the genes to make it?

• In-Depth Article

  Run For Your Life! Evolution’s Solution

  Aug. 8, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Good designs last, evolutionists conclude, but where did they come from in the first place?

• Semi-Technical In-Depth Article

  The Wonderfully Made Design of the Skin and Its Microbiome

  July 16, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Microbes live in a mutualistic relationship with the human body, make up the human microbiome, and play a role in our health by modulating the immune system.

• Book Chapter

  How Did Defense/Attack Structures Come About?

  Feb. 18, 2014 from The New Answers Book 1

  If there was no animal death before sin, why are many animals so well-equipped for killing? Bodie Hodge and Andy McIntosh explain.

• In-Depth Article

  How the Scorpion Got Its Sting

  Feb. 3, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  A genetically engineered toxin is said to show how scorpions evolved.

• Magazine Department Article

  Gear Up

  Jan. 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine

  The journal Science reported in September the discovery of the first mechanical gears to be found in a living organism.

• Research Paper

  Life Lessons Illustrated in the Animal Kingdom

  Dec. 31, 2013 from News to Know

  In 2013, it seems that animals—ever a prominent theme for evolutionary biologists—have proven a marvelous showcase for God’s designs.

• God’s Perfect Creation Included Caffeine

  March 23, 2013 from News to Know

  If like millions of other people you find that caffeine in your coffee, tea, or cola seems to improve your day, you’re not alone.

• Magazine Article

  Creature Teachers at Your Local Zoo

  

  Nov. 25, 2012 from Answers Magazine

  You don’t have to travel far to enjoy a getaway that will also build your biblical worldview.

• Magazine Article

  Horse Leg Bones—A Hole in the Design Argument

  

  Nov. 18, 2012 from Answers Magazine

  Taking a closer look at the equine leg bone, scientists have discovered unexpected features giving amazing strength and may inspire new engineering ideas.

• Semi-Technical Magazine Article

  Death by Design

  

  Jan. 11, 2012 from Answers Magazine

  If our genes and cells arose randomly through competition for supremacy, then how can we explain so many wonderful processes where cells are programmed to sacrifice themselves?

• Magazine Article

  Good Designs Gone Bad

  

  Oct. 23, 2011 from Answers Magazine

  Everything in God’s creation was originally “very good,” but now many microbes cause disease and death.

• Magazine Article

  Design in the Curse

  

  Oct. 16, 2011 from Answers Magazine

  If God made a perfect world, where did harmful abilities come from?

• Magazine Article

  Designed to Kill in a Fallen World

  

  Aug. 22, 2011 from Answers Magazine

  Snakes are killing machines.

• Them Bones, Them Thigh Bones

  March 12, 2011 from News to Know

  What amazing structure is strong yet lightweight? And just as importantly, who was the designer?

• Three Design Stories

  June 12, 2010

  Design stories, times three.

• Trio of Design Reminders

  June 27, 2009 from News to Know

  Three stories this week provide salient reminders of the design apparent in creation—whether it be in structures we’re just beginning to understand, or in engineers taking cues from nature to construct their machines.

• Magazine Article

  Divinely Designed Defenses

  

  June 7, 2009 from Answers Magazine

  The Curse ushered in a brutal world of animals hunting and killing each other to survive.

• The D(esigned)-Word

  May 9, 2009 from News to Know

  An element of nature “designed”—a slip-up or a rare admission?

• A Fly’s Nervous System Aids in Flight

  Aug. 2, 2008 from News to Know

  No wonder houseflies can be so difficult to target: their guidance-control systems are sophisticated enough that they may inspire improvements to control systems in autonomous air vehicles.

• The Gecko Tail and Its Feats

  March 22, 2008 from News to Know

  Regardless of the attention given to those clingy gecko feet, gecko tails play an important role in keeping the mobile little creatures agile.

• Admitting Design

  Feb. 26, 2008

  Kenneth Miller, a Brown University cell biologist and professing Catholic who is one of evolution’s most vocal defenders, says it’s time for evolutionists to “reclaim the language of ‘design.’”

• Tortoise Shell Rights Itself

  Nov. 3, 2007

  Everyone knows that tortoises aren’t exactly nature’s most agile creatures. The plodding manner of the reptiles is fabled, and we haven’t heard of any arrests for illegal tortoise fighting.

• Amazing Design: Scuba Spiders

  Sept. 1, 2007

  A unique type of spider that spends its entire life underwater uses silk to spin personal “scuba tanks” for various purposes, including oxygen supply.

• Self-Cleaning Lotus Leaves

  Jan. 20, 2007

  Two part design ensures lotus leaves are clean.

• Bat Wings: Efficiency in Motion

  Jan. 20, 2007 from News to Know

  The second of three design-in-nature articles this week highlights the amazing flight maneuvering capabilities of bats.

• Technical Research Paper

  Preliminary Observations of the Pygidial Gland of the Bombardier Beetle, Brachinus sp.

  April 1, 2003, pp. 95–102

  In this study the pygidial gland and nozzle of one species of Bombardier Beetle is studied under light and electron microscopy (SEM and TEM) and are shown to be quite complex.

• Magazine Article

  God’s Amazing Glue

  March 1, 2002, pp. 27–28

  It’s only when our technology begins to get close to God’s that we start to understand the “marvellous” designs that He has used!

• Magazine Article

  Electrical design in the human body

  Dec. 1, 1999, pp. 43–45

  In the last century, our society’s dependence on electricity and all the devices associated with it has grown phenomenally.

• Magazine Article

  Blown Away by Design

  Sept. 1, 1999, pp. 14–15

  Michael Denton’s book “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis” has exposed thousands to the overwhelming scientific problems of Darwinian belief.

• Magazine Article

  Dazzling Design in Miniature

  Dec. 1, 1997, pp. 6–7

  The cells of the human body can produce at least 100,000 different types of proteins, all with a unique function. The information to make each of these complicated molecular machines is stored on the well-known molecule, DNA.

• Magazine Article

  Mount Rushmore ... Evidence of Design

  March 1, 1996, pp. 19–20

  Mount Rushmore, in the Black Hills of South Dakota, USA, is a spectacular memorial to four United States Presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

• Magazine Article

  Rotary Engines

  Dec. 1, 1992, pp. 23–24

  Rotating devices, such as wheels, gears and rotary motors do not seem to feature in the natural world of living things. Evolutionists would claim that they know why.

• Magazine Article

  Discovering the Dolphin’s Secret

  March 1, 1992, pp. 24–25

  When man discovered the dolphin’s secret, they tried to copy it! Such an ingenious design owes its origin to God, the Master Designer. The real patent belongs to Him!

• Magazine Article

  Not of Cabbages and Kings

  March 1, 1991, pp. 18–20

  Have you ever noticed that when one considers two apparently different items, any characteristics they do hold in common can also be found in a wide variety of other things?

• Magazine Article

  Hands and Evolutionary Proof

  Sept. 1, 1990, pp. 9–10

  Attempts to build better mechanical hands have shown experts how incredibly complex is the real human hand.

• Magazine Article

  Design—“Man Computerised Thermostat”

  Jan. 1, 1983, pp. 3–4

  Man possesses a complicated temperature control system. It is in reality an automatic, computerised thermostat which works day and night to keep man’s body at approximately 36.8 C or 98.4 F.

• Magazine Article

  The Technology of Flight

  Nov. 1, 1980, pp. 10–11

  Many of our textbooks suggest that it is man’s superior intelligence which has enabled our species to modify the environment by technological innovations and so give us some control of our evolution.