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Intelligent Design the Future

Do or Die: How Life’s Engineering Keeps Us Alive

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

4993 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Is the human body a cosmic accident, or is it the handiwork of a master engineer? Today on ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid begins a two-part conversation with physician Dr. Howard Glicksman, co-author with engineer Steve Laufmann of the new book Your Amazing Body, a fresh, abridged version of their previous book Your Designed Body. In Part 1 of the conversation, Dr. Glicksman begins by contrasting unguided material causes (Darwinism) with intentional intelligent causes, emphasizing that intelligent design better explains the intricate, interdependent coherence found within the human body. He argues that Darwinian evolution only describes how life looks, failing to explain the complex functional capacity, control systems, and engineering principles required for life to actually work and survive. This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Look for Part 2 in a separate episode. Visit www.idthefuture.com for more episodes! Source

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0:00.0

This is what they're winning in explanations totally missed.

0:03.3

It's one thing to explain how it looks.

0:05.9

It's another thing for it to actually work.

0:08.7

And that's what we'll get into.

0:10.2

But that's where our book talks about.

0:12.5

We're explaining how it falls apart and what it needs to stay alive and continue.

0:21.4

ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

0:29.5

Is the human body a cosmic accident, or is it the handiwork of a master engineer?

0:36.3

Can purely material causes, like natural selection,

0:39.4

acting on random mutations, account for the coherent, interdependent, tightly coordinated,

0:45.6

and precision-tuned systems that life requires? Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host,

0:51.5

Andrew McDermid. Joining me today to help me answer these questions and more

0:55.8

is Dr. Howard Glickman, co-author with Steve Lothman, of the new book, Your Amazing Body, a fresh,

1:03.5

abridged version of their previous book, Your Design Body. Dr. Glickman has been a general

1:09.1

practitioner and hospice physician for many years.

1:12.6

He is now a consultant who mentors hospice physicians in the management of fluid overload,

1:17.6

especially due to heart failure. He received his MD from the University of Toronto.

1:23.0

Welcome to the podcast, Howard. Thanks, Andrew. It's great to be here.

1:30.3

So you have over four decades of experience in medicine, which gives you a wealth of firsthand observations of the human body's daily

1:36.5

operations. You've seen it at work solving hundreds of hard engineering problems. Now,

1:42.6

when did you first begin to realize

1:44.4

that what you were witnessing was beyond the abilities

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