Functioning 'mechanical gears' seen in nature for the first time [Proof of 'Intelligent Design'?]

Phys.Org ^ | 09-12-2013 | Provided by University of Cambridge

[Red Badger]

Video at link.............

[2banana]

It says...Made in China

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Check out the wing structure on a dragonfly. Trusses provide support for rigidity while at the same time being lightweight. A super thin 'skin' to enable lift to occur.. Skin is clear to reduce visibility to predators.. BRILLIANT!

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

The back of a tiger's ear has 'spots' so when it has it's back turned to another animal, the other animal thinks it's being watched.. BRILLIANT!

[DYngbld]

I love it! The more science tries to disprove God, the more we see His hand in everything. I love it!

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Check out the wing structure on a dragonfly. Trusses provide support for rigidity while at the same time being lightweight. A super thin 'skin' to enable lift to occur.. Skin is clear to reduce visibility to predators.. BRILLIANT!

I have a degree in mechanical engineering. The best minds in the world can't create a machine this complex. But there is more.

When people compare the mature dragonfly to a flying robot, they fail to consider the fact that the dragonfly developed from a microscopic size, to its mature size, requiring only minimal organic inputs. Try to imagine developing a robot like that. And yet this creature is supposed to have developed by chance. What could be more absurd?

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Dogs with curled tails are originally from cold climates. Their tails are curled so it stays warm and doesn't freeze and break off!.. BRILLIANT!

[dainbramaged]

One could almost envision the blueprints and construction drawings for that creature. The uniformity and precision of honeycombs in the bee world is pretty fascinating, also.

[Moonman62]

If by “intelligent design” you mean God set up a universe in which a mechanism like that could evolve, then the answer is yes.

[ilovesarah2012]

I think spider webs are amazing.

[Red Badger]

“...they fail to consider the fact that the dragonfly developed from a microscopic size, to its mature size, requiring only minimal organic inputs.”

Do you mean from the egg to the larval form to the mature adult? Or from the beginning of time?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganeura

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Here's to honeycombs! Amazingly precise:

..and to spider webs!:

I've always wondered, "How does the spider automatically know how to do that??"

[Red Badger]

The curled tails in dogs is a result of selective breeding by man. This feature is not found in wolves, foxes and other canine type species. The domestication and breeding of foxes in Siberia for the fur industry has show similar trends in the later generations of foxes, just like dogs. The genes are apparently there, but not expressed in the wild............

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

What a transformation!:

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Perhaps pack dogs don’t need curly tails because they have each other to keep warm, whereas the solitary dogs (pets) need them. Give me a gold star for trying? LOL

[the_Watchman]

"These gears are not designed; they are evolved - representing high speed and precision machinery evolved for synchronisation in the animal world."

All they need to do is make this statement and the notion that God designed it is disallowed! No proof required. Ain't it wonderful how science works?

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

I watched a program once where the people in a village wore human face masks on the backs of their heads to reduce tiger attacks. Two can play at that game. LOL

[Red Badger]

Dogs, all dogs, are essentially wolves. They have done DNA studies and found that wolf DNA is indistinguishable form that of a Chihuahua. Dogs and wolves can mate and produce viable offspring that is not sterile like a mule or other hybridized type of animal.

My Chihuahua still thinks she is a wolf..............

[pallis]

Our wolf-like dog thinks our Chihuahua is a wolf.

[Rinnwald]

"These gears are not designed; they are evolved - representing high speed and precision machinery evolved for synchronisation in the animal world."

So, I'd like to see millions of years worth of fossils as non-functioning "near gears" developed.