So what is DB? Design Biology or DB is my shorthand for this idea: biology looks less like an accident and more like an engineered system. It treats living things the way an investigator treats a complex artifact, by asking what the parts do, how the information is stored, and what it would take for the system to work at all.

Here’s the outline of what I mean.

Design Biology starts with the universe and the body. I believe the universe is ordered, lawful, and finely tuned for life. I also see the human body as an integrated, goal-directed system. It has interlocking subsystems, error-checking, repair, feedback control, and layered information storage. When I look at things like DNA coding, cellular machines, embryonic development, and the way organs coordinate, I see the same patterns we see in designed systems: codes, constraints, interfaces, and control loops.

Design Biology is also a method, not just a conclusion. It asks, “What is the mechanism that builds this?” “What information is required?” and “What must already exist for this to function?” It focuses on testable features such as information density, irreducible interdependence among parts, coordinated timing, and the fact that many biological functions work only when multiple components are present together.

My stance, stated plainly: I think life and the major biological architectures point to real design rather than undirected chance. I see design as the best explanation for why complex biological systems are information-rich, tightly coordinated, and functional from the start.

I see it as an alternative to biological evolution. Mainstream evolution explains diversity through mutation and natural selection over time. My issue is not that populations change or that selection happens. My issue is whether unguided processes can realistically generate the kind of new, integrated biological machinery we see, in which many parts must match and work together. The system depends on encoded instructions and regulation. In my view, the origin of that kind of functional information and coordinated architecture is the central question, and “chance plus selection” does not answer it at the level of mechanism.

How I frame origins in categories. I separate three kinds of explanations:

1.     Natural mechanisms with no directing agency (purely undirected chemistry and physics).

2.     Intelligent physical causes (an intelligent agent operating within the physical universe, like directed panspermia).

3.     Supernatural cause (God as Creator, not limited by physics).

Design Biology is the lens I use to evaluate which category best fits the evidence. For me, the evidence points to (3).

So, Design Biology is a design-inference view of life that treats biology as an information-driven, engineered system, and it’s my alternative to the claim that unguided evolution built the major machinery of life.