Engineering, not Evolution, Explains the Body

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

4 • 993 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The groundbreaking recent book Your Designed Body is the focus of today’s ID the Future. Here in Part 2 of a two-part conversation with host Wesley J. Smith, the two authors, systems engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman, delve deeper into the exquisite, multi-layered fine tuning of the human body. They point to essential systems within systems within systems—irreducible complexity cubed, if you will. They also respond to the charge that aspects of the human body are poorly designed and, therefore, are supposedly better explained by the blind process of Darwinian evolution. Laufmann identifies five common errors that Darwinists make when pushing this bad-design argument. All of the errors involve an ignorance of key engineering principles, he says, one of them being a failure to consider the principle of constrained optimization. This episode is reposted at ID the Future by permission of Wesley J. Smith and the Humanize podcast.

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design
0:12.3	hello I'm Tom Gilson. We're back again with Wesley J Smith, chair and senior fellow at the Discovery
0:18.9	Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and Host of the Humanized Podcast.
0:25.0	And we're in the second half of his interview with the co-authors of the 2022 book, Your Design
0:30.5	Body.
0:31.5	Steve Laughlin is a computer, engineer, author, an engineering consultant
0:36.8	with expertise in the design of enterprise level systems. He's the founder of the Discovery Institute's engineering research group too.
0:46.3	Howard Glixman is a primary care and hospice physician with more than 40 years of experience
0:52.4	in clinical practice.
0:54.0	And just so you know who's who, the first person you will hear speak is Wesley Smith.
1:00.0	Then Steve Lofman's voice comes in very briefly as he turns it over to Howard Glixman.
1:06.0	It's interesting. I mean, there was just as we're recording this, a young man playing football,
1:12.8	professional football, collapsed with a cardiac arrest
1:17.3	on the field.
1:18.1	And if your heart has stopped, I guess you're supposed,
1:22.0	you know, that you can be called dead, but his heart was restarted, so why isn't that life restarting?
1:27.6	Or was he never actually dead in that sense?
1:32.0	Oh, I'll let Howard touch that one.
1:34.0	That's a Howard question.
1:35.0	I'm not sure.
1:37.0	You know, you could, you can have a rhythm problem with your heart,
1:40.0	ventrick your dysrhythmia that vent malignant, the tricker dysrhythmia
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