I. D. the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Welcome to I.D. the Future. This is Dr Michael Eigner. I have a

enormous pleasure of having as my guest today Steve Lofman. Steve is an engineer who has co-authored along with Howard Glixman, a book entitled

Your Design Body, which is a fantastic book.

I think it's the definitive book on intelligent design of human

physiology and it is my great privilege to have Steve with us today.

It's good to be here Mike. So Steve, so tell me, first of all, what led you and Howard to write this book?

Well, the funny answer is, you know, we're not very smart. We dove into this project

without really thinking about how much work it would be. The serious answer is

that so Howard had been writing on this subject for quite a while and I was really intrigued by his perspective and so I I called him up and I well I told him you're missing all the engineering things in what you're doing.

There's so much engineering in the human body.

So I think if we were to sort of blend our two perspectives, this could be really interesting.

There's probably a lot of material that would come from this, and I think it could make a very compelling case for the design of the body as opposed to the random

accidents that supposedly constructed the body. So we started about five years ago and you know it has been a it's been quite an

effort to get this rolled together. How do you merge those two perspectives in a way that's

readable and what can what do you leave in or what do you leave out so it's been it's

been a lot of effort and we think it's turned out pretty well.

It's kind of funny because in reading your book and I recommend to our

audience to please or please get the book. It's a fantastic book. I found that in my

own research which is on blood flow to the brain, that I had ended up using

a lot more engineering than I did physiology.

And my bookshelves are full of textbooks on engineering that I applied to blood flow. So Howard and Steve's book really

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