The Country Shrink on June 8th, 2009

We humans like to think we’re pretty good at design and technology – but we often forget that Mother Nature had a head start of 3.6 million years. Now, the way that geckoes climb walls, or hummingbirds hover, is at the centre of a burgeoning industry: biomimicry, the science of “reverse-engineering” clever ideas from the [...]

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The Country Shrink on May 29th, 2009

ARN correspondent, Robert Deyes, has written an interesting post entitled, The Designs That Human Endeavors Can Only Approximate And Rarely Surpass. He writes:
Throughout history man has looked to the natural world as the source of inspiration for some of the most exquisite inventions ever seen. Perhaps most famous of all is the Eiffel tower [...]

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The Country Shrink on February 4th, 2009

In Part I, I introduced the concepts that were set forth by Joey Campana on how a design orientation fosters applied science. William Dembski over at UD linked to a site that has a page titled: The 15 Coolest Cases of Biomimicry. I am much more an advocate of applied science over basic [...]

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The Country Shrink on January 10th, 2009

I’ve written before about how Ocam’s razor consistently slices the wrong way in biology…meaning that there is a continuous trend of discovering that the machinery of life is more complex than previously thought. 
Scientists have recently discovered,(1) that ribosomes have a “proofreading step,” which is said to recognize errors shortly after making them and has an [...]

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The Country Shrink on January 6th, 2009

I recently read a brilliant paper(1) written by Joey Campana, in which he details what he terms the Design Isomorph and Isomorphic Complexity. His ideas have practical applicability to both applied technology research and the applied science of biology. As I’ve stated before, Darwinism has little practical utility beyond designed algorithms (i.e., genetic [...]

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The Country Shrink on November 10th, 2008

Many materialists (atheists and theistic evolutionists most often) argue that materialistic philosophy is key to scientific advancement. If any ideas of Creationists are allowed to even be referenced, then scientific progress will halt and people will die. There will be mass and widespread calamitous events, and we will return to the Dark Ages.
Mphuthumi [...]

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The Country Shrink on September 22nd, 2008

Applied science has to do with science that is bent on real-world applications of the research. For example, researchers can attempt to understand the “design features” of the human brain in order to advance computer technology.
So, consider for a moment, the techniques of reverse engineering. A scientist attempting to develop an artificial limb [...]

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My co-author, DB, wrote:
And yet, along with Skinner and many others, our education system has been heavily influenced by these atheistic ideas. As Mynym pointed out, at the end of his comment, our schools have become battle zones, where parents can’t be assured that their children will return home safely or, if they do, educated. [...]

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The Country Shrink on July 29th, 2008

I ran across a very interesting story that dates back to 2003. It was on a site that has a focus of advancing nanotechnology. There is a very interesting interview with a Japanese researcher studying the bacterial flagellum. The researcher appears to utilizing the aspect of applied science where I think ID [...]

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