Design Motifs
Posted in Engineering, Intelligent Design on May 7th, 2005 by Steve PetermannIntelligent design proponents often use an argument from analogy to support their claim that biological artifacts are designed. Since biological systems have many similarities to human designs, that is taken as evidence that they are designed. Detractors then typically counter to the effect that no intelligent designer would design in such a halting, inefficient, or contingent way. This counter argument is, however, based on a presumption of some particular design motif, in most cases one grounded in our age of technology. Perhaps it is because in many cases biological systems look like marvelous machines or factories. The technology environment is, however, not the only environment in which design takes place.
