Your Designed Respiratory System: Causal Circularities and Irreducible Complexities

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

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🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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On this ID the Future, Your Designed Body author and physician Howard Glicksman again sits down with host and professor of neurosurgery Michael Egnor to further explore Glicksman’s new book, co-authored with engineer Steve Laufmann. Here Glicksman gives a quick flyover of what they explore in fascinating depth in the book, namely the irreducible complexity of that extraordinary systems of systems that is the human respiratory system. As Glicksman explains, there are individual systems that are irreducibly complex, and these are joined together into a higher-level system of systems that is also irreducibly complex, marked by causal circularities and coherent interdependencies at every turn. Without all of it guided by various highly precise control mechanisms, no life. Darwinian gradualism is Read More ›

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0:00.0	I D the future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome I'm Dr. Michael Egner. I am a professor of neurosurgery at Stony Brook on
0:17.5	Long Island and I've been practicing and teaching neurosurgery for about 40 years. I'm a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and I have the great
0:26.7	pleasure today of having as our guest Dr Howard Glixman. Howard has written along with his colleague Steve Lofman a wonderful book called
0:35.8	Your Designed Body. It is a fascinating book and Howard could you tell us just a little bit
0:41.5	about yourself and about the book and we can
0:44.2	discuss some of the fascinating points that you raise in the book.
0:47.8	Yes, thanks Mike.
0:48.8	I'm a general practitioner.
0:50.1	I've been in practice for about 40 years, first 20 years or so I had a hospital office practice and then in the last 20 years I've been a hospice physician, particularly in the last five or six years, concentrating on seeing patients with problems
1:04.8	that may be recoverable, actually sort of trying
1:06.7	to find patients in hospice that are sort of
1:08.4	following through the cracks,
1:09.3	and we can try to get them better
1:10.4	and have a specialty in heart failure and fluid overload, I've been able to solve some of their problems.
1:15.6	The book itself, your design body, basically is about you and anyone else who has a body.
1:23.0	It basically looks at all the organ systems of the body
1:27.0	shows how they work and then talks about the built-in engineering
1:30.0	to make that work and then finally,
1:32.0	ask the question well where
1:33.6	all this come from so it looks at causation as a sort of a critique of
1:37.4	neo-Darwinism and and then presents a positive theory of biological design and then leaves it up to the reader to decide for themselves
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