A Physician’s Fantastic Voyage through Your Designed Body

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future Your Designed Body author and physician Howard Glicksman takes a deep dive with Philosophy for the People podcast host Pat Flynn into Glicksman’s new book, co-authored with systems engineer Steve Laufmann. As Glicksman puts it, he and Laufmann look not just at how the human body looks but at what it actually takes for it to work and not die, and what this implies for evolutionary theory. Begin by piling up the layers of complexity in the human body—the layer upon layer of complex interdependent systems. Then ask hard questions about whether any blind and gradual evolutionary process could have kept our evolutionary ancestors alive at every generational stage as all this was gradually engineered Read More ›

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0:00.0	I. D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.4	Hello, this is Tom Gilson, and to introduce today's episode, I'm going to get briefly a little
0:17.5	bit personal with you, and I promise not too personal, but just that this week I had my annual physical with all of the annual
0:25.4	lab tests that go with it and my goodness there's a lot of them I'm sure there could
0:29.6	have been a lot more and they come back with all these numbers that tell you whether you fit
0:33.4	into the narrow range that indicates whether you are healthy or not. Today on ID
0:39.0	the future Dr. Howard Glixman, a physician and co-author with Steve Lothman of the book Your
0:45.1	Design Body, speaks with Pat Flynn, a philosopher and podcaster, about those
0:51.1	numbers and about so much more the amazing ways in which your body and every other living
0:56.4	organism can control everything from calcium to hemoglobin to to oxygen, and just what it would have taken for evolution
1:06.5	to have produced that by natural means, it's a medically based perspective that really shows our bodies are intelligently designed.
1:16.7	Okay everybody, welcome back to the podcast. I am joined today by Dr. Howard Glixeman.
1:21.2	We're going to talk about just how amazing the human body is and what are some of the larger
1:25.2	implications of just the really, I think I'm comfortable saying the miracle of the human body in a, in a, you know, in a sense and you know we're going to talk about that
1:34.6	here today. Dr. Glitzman has a really fascinating new book out there that is
1:40.4	contributing to a topic that we have covered many times on this
1:43.8	podcast a controversial topic but one that has fascinated me and that's of
1:47.7	intelligent design so that's going to be the theme of today's episode
1:51.8	Howard really great to have you here great to make your So that's going to be the theme of today's episode.
1:52.6	Howard, really great to have you here.
1:54.2	Great to make your virtual acquaintance.
1:55.7	Thanks for coming on the podcast.
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