Design features

These awesome spiders are good dancers—and master architects, too.

Is the concept of ‘perfect design’ even a helpful way to think?

A sneak preview of the editorial from the soon-to-be-released Creation magazine. Subscribers will be delighted with the magazine’s powerful content and brilliant graphics.

These bacteria precision-build magnetic navigation aids

testifies the uniqueness of mankind, made in the image of God

Knowing the correct direction to fly isn’t always enough

Chameleons are fascinating creatures which show remarkable evidences of God’s design.

Meet the tiny mantis shrimp that can punch holes in glass using an ingenious catapult mechanism. Its eyes, with 12 types of colour receptor, may help designers of cameras for satellites.

Why are teeth so tough, although they are coated with material as brittle as glass? Because of so-called imperfections, as well as other features!

Geckos stick to surfaces with tiny hairs that attract by van der Waals forces, and come unstuck by controlling angle of the hairs and springy curved toes.

Bats are programmed with a fixed speed of sound. Changing the air composition messes up their echolocation system, which means they will miss their target.

Complex operations within a cell have to be present from the start for it to function at all.

Do bats have a sixth sense? Turns out they can ‘see’ earth’s magnetic field with the cornea of their eyes. Small magnetite particles feature as a ‘compass needle’.

Scientists build amazing animatronic ammonite models to investigate their swimming abilities, but this demonstrates their intelligent design rather than evolution.

Baby brains are programmed for learning any language in the world and many other things, even before birth.

Ironclad beetle laminated elytra have special joins that confer extra toughness, and might inspire aircraft joints.