Biological Systems--Do we need the Science of Engineering to understand them?

Question

Engineering involves design to achieve a given purpose. Sometimes it involves reverse engineering to see how a system was built. In biological system--e.g. how a cell works--do we need the science of engineering.

If so, are biological systems design?

Answer 1

Most branches of modern science were founded by believers in creation. Evolution does not have such a list !!!



Physics - Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Kelvin, Joule

Chemistry - Boyle, Dalton, Ramsay

Biology - Ray, Linnaeus, Mendel, Pasteur, Virchow, Agassiz

Geology - Steno, Woodward, Brewster, Buckland, Cuvier

Astronomy - Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Herschel, Maunder

Mathematics Pascal, Leibnitz, Euler



Note that we are not claiming that they all agreed on every aspect of creation; rather, they refute the common evolutionary arguments that "no creationists can be real scientists" and that "denying evolution will return us to the Dark Ages."



Even today, many scientists reject particles-to-people evolution (i.e., everything made itself).



Dr Russell Humphreys, a nuclear physicist working with Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has had over 20 articles published in physics journals, while Dr John Baumgardner's catastrophic plate tectonics theory was reported in Nature. Dr Edward Boudreaux of the University of New Orleans has published 26 articles and four books in physical chemistry. Dr Maciej Giertych, head of the Department of Genetics at the Institute of Dendrology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, has published 90 papers in scientific journals. Dr Raymond Damadian invented the lifesaving medical advance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).



Now you have no logical alternative but to accept that Jesus is God just like these scientists:



“I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic-on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg-or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse.



You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. “

Col 2:9 (NIV)

Answer 2

No.



If I'm an early architect, and I notice a natural rock formation in the shape of an arch, I can "reverse engineer" that concept without somehow implying that someone designed and built the natural rock formation.



Biological systems are not only the often complex products of billions of years of evolution; the important parts are also often microscopic and fragile, making even the act of looking at them a daunting challenge. But, like rock formations, the fact that understanding them well enough to try to copy them is difficult, does not mean that we're tracing someone's footsteps.

Answer 3

Yep



Evolution picks the better designs through trial and error.

Answer 4

Using semantic tricks doesn't change the fact that biology is natural not created.

Answer 5

It is called bioengineering.