The Human Body As a Marvel of Engineering

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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

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🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Is your body engineered? Or did it evolve through impersonal, random processes over millions of years through natural selection? On this ID The Future, host Wesley J. Smith interviews engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman about their recent book Your Designed Body. In their book, Laufmann and Glicksman evaluate the causal factors of Darwinism - heritability, random mutation, natural selection, and time - and find that they are both inadequate and incapable of producing the interconnected systems of the human body. "The systems that are required to make the human body work," says Laufmann, "are exactly the kinds of things that engineers design and build." Instead, they explain the body through the lens of engineering, showing that design is the most adequate mechanism currently available to explain how the origin of our amazing human bodies. Says Glicksman: "The more we understand how life actually works, the more the neo-Darwinian narrative becomes impossible." This is Part 1 of a two-part interview, originally airing on the Humanize podcast, a production of Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism.

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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. I'm pleased to introduce today's ID the future conversation on life viewed from a prospective biologists have rarely studied.
0:22.8	Engineering.
0:24.2	Wesley J Smith, chair and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's
0:28.6	Center on Human Exceptionalism,
0:31.4	interviews the co-authors of the book Your Design Body, released late in
0:35.8	2022. His guests are Engineer Steve Laughlin and Physician Howard Glixman,
0:42.4	originally aired at the Humanized
0:45.3	Podcast. This is the first of two parts we'll present here at ID the
0:49.6	future. Welcome to Humanized from Discovery Institute's center on human exceptionalism, where human rights meet human responsibilities.
0:58.0	We speak with writers, thinkers, and newsmakers on the controversial issues of human life and human thriving
1:05.4	that impact our daily lives.
1:08.0	We are exceptional as creatures in the cosmos,
1:11.3	as equal members of the human family, and as ethical beings. in the How do we live well and care for what we've inherited? How do we act responsibly with
1:24.3	one another and in the wider world? And how do we conserve the good things of this
1:28.3	life for the future? We matter. Our actions matter. Let's get into it. I'm Wesley J Smith and this is humanize. So, In this episode of Human Eyes, we will explore the human body. Is your body engineered or did it evolve
2:06.3	through impersonal and random processes over countless millions of years of natural selection? And what difference does the answer to that question make? My guess are
2:17.0	the authors of your design body, a new book that explores the complexity of the human physical form, concluding that such an intricate and complicated
2:26.7	system could not have arisen by chance.
2:30.8	Steve Lofman is a public speaker, author, computer scientist, an engineering consultant in the design of enterprise class systems with expertise in the difficulties of changing complex systems to perform new tasks.
2:45.0	He was a founding member of the International Foundation for Cooperative Information Systems
2:50.0	and has published many juries papers and book chapters on information commerce and related topics.
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