How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature to Thrive

albumin, blood, capillaries, cell death, Darwinian narrative, death, dying, Engineering, Eric Anderson, hormones, Howard Glicksman, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, life, liver, living systems, Medicine, minerals, physics, Podcast, proteins, Steve Laufmann, water, Your Designed Body
Left to their own devices, the natural result of physics and chemistry is death, not life. So how are we still breathing? Source
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The Ingenious Cellular Structure that Keeps Us Alive

biology, cell's, chemical balance, chemicals, Darwinian theory, Energy, Engineering, Eric Anderson, friction, heat transfer, Howard Glicksman, human body, ID The Future, intelligent cause, Intelligent Design, matter, Medicine, organisms, physicians, Podcast, Steve Laufmann, system of systems, systems engineers, Your Designed Body
In the “just so” stories of the Darwinian narrative, these engineering solutions simply evolved. They emerged and got conserved. Voila! Source
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Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

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The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster. Source
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I Grew Up with Intelligent Design Videos — Let’s Make More!

cell machinery, Center for Science and Culture, chameleons, common sense, Discovery Institute, DNA, Evolution, Howard Glicksman, humor, Intelligent Design, kinesins, Long Story Short, media, Michael Behe, microtubules, monkeys, mousetrap, movie producer, newspapers, proteins, replication, Secrets of the Cell, shrimp, Steve Laufmann, turtles, Your Designed Body, YouTube videos
Even as a child, I could sense the scientific rigor and common sense in CSC videos, and I learned to recognize media hype about evolution for what it is. Source
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Sleep — Designed for Our Good

acetylcholine, adenosine, amygdala, birds, brain, brainstem, cerebrospinal fluid, dopamine, dreaming, Evolution, Flight, gamma-aminobutyric acid, hippocampus, histamine, Howard Glicksman, humans, insects, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex, mammals, mice, neurotransmitters, norepinephrine, pons, prowess, reptiles, rest, sleep, speed, Steve Laufmann, strength, thalamus, tuberomammillary nucleus, unconsciousness, wakefulness, waking, Your Designed Body
The evolutionary mindset operates as a major obstacle to the scientific understanding of sleep. Source
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The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering

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It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system. Source
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The Human Body as a Marvel of Engineering

Center on Human Exceptionalism, Discovery Institute, Engineering, engineers, heritability, Howard Glicksman, human body, Humanize, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Medicine, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, Podcast, random mutation, Steve Laufmann, Wesley J. Smith, Your Designed Body
“The systems that are required to make the human body work,” says Steve Laufmann, “are exactly the kinds of things that engineers design and build.” Source
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