Why Human Skeletal Joints Are Masterpieces of Engineering

One of Britain's top mechanical engineers, Stuart Burgess explains how the skeletal joints in the human body are masterpieces of intelligent design. He also responds to claims by some that human joints are badly designed.
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 Westminster Theological Seminary.
Dr Stuart Burgess has held academic posts at Bristol University (UK), Cambridge University (UK), and Liberty University (USA). He has published over 180 scientific publications on the science of design in engineering and biology. In the last two Olympics he was the lead transmission designer for the British Olympic Cycling Team, helping them on both occasions to be ranked in first place for track cycling. For the last two decades his gearboxes have been used successfully on all the large earth-observation satellites of the European Space Agency. He has received many national and international awards for design, including from the Minister of State for Trade and Industry in the UK. In 2019 he was given the top mechanical engineer award in the UK out of 120,000 professional mechanical engineers.
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I am an engineer, a dancer (classical, flamenco and katakh) and I play classical piano and lead guitar, and my second degree is philosophy and sociology and I totally agree, that human body is exceptionally well designed. It’s the only machine that is so multifunctional. Including our cognitive abilities. That Nathan should retire from anything to do with science.

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This Institution gives me hope for science, how can any true student look at everything presented here and say that we cannot teach these concepts because they preclude an intelligent first mover.

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I’m a medical student. And no amount of evolutionary BS is going to make me believe in chance that led to such ingenious design of the human body. I chose medicine because the human body just completely amazes every day.

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Reproductive systems have to be the greatest thing in biological engineering. It encompass all the achievements of single design with the addition of it replicating itself.

[@emily.t777]

I'll never look at my feet, or other peoples feet, the same again. So bring out your flip flops and show off those beauties of biomechanics off proudly!! But really, this was so very fruitful and I'm in absolute awe of our wonderful Creator. Thank you to Stuart Burgess and the folks at Discovery Science (Stephen Meyer is one of my favorite humans)

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God created all things. It's so obvious a child can see it.

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I Love this man. Currently working on design as well. Engineers will never believe that the Human body evolved. Evolution makes no sense at all in explaining designs...

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Problem is; most Darwin evolutionists and atheists thinks they are better than Leonardo da Vinci

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Dawkins' argument from authority is a logical fallacy. Truth is absolute and independent, not institutional authority.

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Absolutely love this seminar! Not only does he make it simple to understand but in a brief time shows you how wonderfully designed we are

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I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well

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Thank you for an incredibly engaging hour!

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I'm not worried about Lents I'm worried about any institution that would continue to employ him after this

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Very enjoyable talk.

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Should not ignore the

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They make fun of the design argument but they attempt to replicate designs from nature because they’re… well designed 😂

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the fact that we need to spend that amount of research and money on a artificial one speaks volumes