Your Designed Body: “Irreducible Complexity on Steroids”

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future, Your Designed Body co-author and physician Howard Glicksman talks with host and neurosurgery professor Michael Egnor about Glicksman’s new book, co-authored with systems engineer Steve Laufmann. Glicksman walks through a series of systems in the human body that are each irreducibly complex, and are each part of larger coherent interdependent systems. As Glicksman puts it, the human body is “irreducible complexity on steroids.” How could blind evolutionary processes, such as neo-Darwinism’s joint mechanism of natural selection working on random genetic mutations, build this bio-engineering marvel? Your Designed Body makes the case that it couldn’t. It’s not even close. What is required instead is foresight, planning, and engineering genius.

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0:00.0	I d the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design
0:12.3	welcome this is Dr. Michael Egner. I'm a professor of neurosurgery in Stony Brook, New York, and I have been teaching and doing research from practicing neurosurgery about 40 years and I'm a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute.
0:28.6	I have the great pleasure today to have with me Howard Klicksman. Dr. Clicksman has written a wonderful book called
0:35.8	Your Design Body and I'd like to ask Dr. Clicksman to tell us a bit about himself and a bit about his book.
0:43.4	Well, thanks, Mike. Yeah, it's great to be here.
0:45.6	I've been a physician for over 40 years, trained in the University of Toronto.
0:50.3	I'm a general practitioner, and I had an office in hospital practice for about a little over 20 years but for the last 20 years or so now and I've been on hospice doctor really actually the last five or six years I seek out and try to find patients that
1:05.2	may be recoverable in hospice so that you know I try to get the better if I can I have a specialty
1:10.2	in heart failure and fluid overload that I've been able to solve these people's problems sometimes.
1:14.8	So that's sort of what I do.
1:17.4	And the book that we have though, it's called me and Steve Lofton, the engineer, it's
1:22.0	called your design body and basically it's about you and everyone
1:26.3	else who has a body. Basically looks at all the organ systems of the body and explains how they work and the fact that you need this built
1:35.8	in engineering for them to work properly and then finally we sort of look at causation like
1:41.9	you know where did all this come from.
1:43.2	What is it about the body that impresses you as being the product of design?
1:48.6	Well actually maybe we can just go through the perspectives that we take in this book is basically the first
1:54.3	perspective is a medical perspective where we lay out the data of how the body works so and that
2:00.7	medical perspective is really looking at control mechanisms.
2:04.0	Basically, the Goldilocks principle in action, because of any one of these things aren't working properly, you're dead.
2:11.0	So for example, there's multiple chemical
2:13.9	parameters in the body and the ones that we look at, some of them in the book are
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