Engineering on Steroids: The Incredible Design of the Human Body

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Every day your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. These problems involve multiple coordinated, integrated systems that have to come online, not gradually, but all at once and at just the right time and place. Can an evolutionary process explain the development of these systems? You be the judge. On today's ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid welcomes Steve Laufmann, co-author with Dr. Howard Glicksman of the new book Your Amazing Body, a fresh, abridged version of their previous book Your Designed Body. In this discussion, Laufmann brings his engineering background to bear on the marvels of human anatomy, showing us how the human body is not just functional but brilliantly designed. We’ll explore how engineering intersects with biology, how an engineer and a physician worked together to lay out this evidence, and what the new streamlined book can offer readers. Source

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0:00.0	These are not problems with simplistic or simple solutions.
0:04.4	These take incredible engineering to accomplish.
0:09.3	And interestingly, it so rarely goes wrong.
0:13.3	Why does it go right almost all the time?
0:16.5	That's truly amazing.
0:21.5	ID, The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:29.1	Welcome to ID the Future.
0:30.6	I'm your host, Andrew McDermid.
0:32.6	My guest today is Steve Lothman, co-author with Dr. Howard Glickman of the new book, Your Amazing Body,
0:39.4	a fresh abridged version of their previous book, Your Design Body. In this discussion,
0:44.9	Lothman brings his engineering background to bear on the marvels of human anatomy, showing us
0:49.7	how the human body is not just functional, but brilliantly designed. We'll explore how engineering
0:55.0	intersects with biology, how an engineer and a physician worked together to lay out this
0:59.7	evidence, and what the new streamlined book can offer readers. Now, in case you're not yet familiar
1:05.4	with him, Steve Loughman is a speaker, author, computer scientist, and consultant in the design of enterprise class
1:12.3	systems with expertise and the difficulties of changing complex systems to perform new tasks.
1:18.7	He leads the engineering research group at Discovery Institute and chaired the program committee
1:23.3	for the recent 2025 conference on engineering in living systems.
1:28.1	Steve, welcome to ID of the Future.
1:30.0	Good to be here. Thanks.
1:32.0	Well, we're here today to discuss your newest book, Your Amazing Body,
1:36.7	condensed and adapted from your 2022 book, Your Design Body, co-authored with Dr. Glickman.
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