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

Welcome to I. D. The Future. This is Dr. Michael Eisner. I have the great pleasure today of having as my guest Steve Lofman.

Steve is an engineer with an extensive background in engineering aspects of design systems.

And together with Howard Clicksman, who is a physician,

Stephen Howard have written a wonderful book called Your Design Body.

It is a fascinating discussion of the aspects of human physiology

that can really only be explained as an engineered system and those aspects are basically all of human physiology.

So Steve, it's a real pleasure to have you today on ID in the future.

It's great to be bad.

Thanks.

On this segment, I wanted to ask about the theory that you and Howard have presented in your book

that you call the theory of biological design. The subtitle is making it a decision. What does that mean? What's that theory about?

So it's for an engineer, there must be something going on in the history of living systems.

There must be some amazing engineering happening.

So rather than posit that the human body was designed, because I think that's sort of obvious, and I think the intelligent design community has really made a strong case.

I just can't imagine that anyone can find a better explanation than intelligent design.

But the notion of intelligent design doesn't really tell us how things work.

So the theory of biological design is to explore living systems to understand what's going on, what the design characteristics of those systems are,

and how those might work together over time in the history of life.

And perhaps by doing this, we can come up

with an alternate theory to Darwinism and its many variations, which seem to be, as we discussed last time, not just

causally inadequate, but causally incapable. They don't just fall short. They just don't even approach solving the problems.

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