Biomimicry
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Is Reader’s Digest semantically conceding the field to intelligent design?
The April 2011 edition of Reader’s Digest features an article by Shaun Pett called “Intelligent Design” (p. 82). We are told, “A new field of research uses nature to solve everyday human problems.”:
The term “biomimicry,” popularized by American natural-sciences writer Janine Benyus in the late 1990s, refers to innovations that take their inspiration from flora and fauna. Biomimicry advocates argue that with 3.8 billion years of research and development, evolution has already solved many of the challenges humans now encounter.
Question: Why do human enterprises in this area need guidance that immediately beggars the resources of natural selection, if nature doesn’t? Read More ›