Joel Kontinen
Our world is full of wonders. It looks like it has been designed for a purpose. In a New Scientist article, synthetic biologist Drew Endy says:
“Look at trees. They grow self-assembling solar panels that recycle themselves. There's a pine tree in my front yard that's growing about a thousand pine cones. They're growing from what, exactly? Atmospheric carbon, trace things from the earth, water and photons.”
Plants do not waste. They have been in the recycling business since the dawn of time. Recently, researchers have looked for inspiration in the solutions they see in nature. Biomimicry has become a flourishing field of hi-tech engineering.
Intelligent solutions suggest that there is intelligence behind it all. From a Christian perspective that is exactly what we would expect to see.
You can read more about biomimicry here, here, here, here, here and here.
Source:
Heaven, Douglas. 2013. Meet the man writing a language to program life. New Scientist 2932 28-29.
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