A Physician’s Fantastic Voyage through Your Designed Body

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Begin by piling up the layers of complexity in the human body — the layer upon layer of complex interdependent systems. Source
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Your Designed Body: Hearing Is a Symphony of Parts

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The human ear can detect sound when the eardrum is displaced by as little as one-tenth the diameter of a single hydrogen atom. Source
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“Poor Design”? Actually, the Human Body Is Amazing; Here’s Why

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If someone suggests that a coherent, interdependent system of systems arose by chance, they’ll need to back that up with a detailed engineering analysis. Source
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Ever Thought You Could Change Someone’s Mind?

atheists, biology, Books, Center for Science & Culture, Discovery Institute, educational outreach, engineers, Evolution, Evolution News, Faith & Science, Howard Glicksman, human exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Michael Denton, orcas, physicians, Richard Weikart, Stephen Meyer, Steve Laufmann, United Kingdom, YouTube videos
Iain was a diehard atheist from the United Kingdom. "I absolutely knew that I would never believe in a creator. It was inconceivable to me," he recalls. Source
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New Paper Investigates Engineering Design Constraints on the Bacterial Flagellum

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This technique of examining biology through the eyes of engineering is not necessarily new — systems biologists have been doing it for years. Source
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Join Us: Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, April 23-25, in Southern California

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Engineers, unlike evolutionary biologists, understand at a deep level how things work, why they work, and when they fail, why they don’t work. So the intelligent design movement has long welcomed engineering insights as a corrective to assurances from evolutionists that they’ve got everything about the mystery of biological origins all figured out. With this in mind, it’s satisfying to invite you to the 2020 Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, April 23 to 25, at Biola University.  See You in Southern California Our esteemed Evolution News contributor Steve Laufmann is the organizer and he welcomes you to join him on the Biola campus in La Mirada, CA. From the event description page, here are some subjects to be covered: Intersection of Biology and Engineering — the impacts of engineering thinking…
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Forty Parameters of the Designed Body

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On a classic episode of ID the Future, host Tod Butterfield interviews Steve Laufmann about Dr. Howard Glicksman’s 81-part Evolution News series, “The Designed Body.” Mr. Laufmann is a consultant in the field of enterprise architecture, dealing with the design of very large, very complex, composite information systems that are orchestrated to perform specified tasks in demanding environments. Hey, that sounds like the human body! Listen in as Laufmann reflects on the body’s fight against equilibrium, the Goldilocks principle, and more! Download the podcast or listen to it here. Image: Vitruvian Man, by Leonardo da Vinci [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. The post Forty Parameters of the Designed Body appeared first on Evolution News.
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