Tag: cardiovascular system

Human heart with blood vessels. 3d illustration.

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
August 21, 2023

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albumin, blood, capillaries, cardiovascular system, cell death, cellular life, Darwinism, diffusion, diffusion gradient, engineered systems, engineering, Evolution, heart, Human, human being, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, liver, Neo-Darwinism, osmosis, physician}

How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature to Survive

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August 21, 2023

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Left to their own devices, the natural result of physics and chemistry is death, not life. So how are we still breathing? On this ID The Future, host Eric Anderson concludes his conversation with physician Howard Glicksman about some of the remarkable engineering challenges that have to be solved to produce and maintain living organisms such as ourselves. Glicksman is co-author with systems engineer Steve Laufmann of the recent book Your Designed Body, an exploration of the extraordinary system of systems that encompasses thousands of ingenious and interdependent engineering solutions to keep us alive and ticking. In the “just so” stories of the Darwinian narrative, these engineering solutions simply evolved. They emerged and got conserved. Voila! But it takes more than the laws of nature to keep us from dying. In Part 1, Glicksman discussed how two laws of nature - diffusion and osmosis - must be innovated by living systems to avoid cell death. In this episode, Glicksman provides another example: how we regulate the flow of water and blood through our bodies without the excess leakage or shrinkage that can lead to cell death. The protein albumin is crucial. Along with helping to transport minerals and hormones, albumin vitally maintains blood volume by regulating the water flow in and out of the capillaries. How does our liver know how to make albumin, or how much of it to make? Can a gradual Darwinian process be credited with these essential innovations? Or do they bear hallmarks of design? Listen in as Dr. Glicksman explains this remarkable system, just one of many engineering feats our bodies perform every day to keep us alive. Read More ›

3d rendered medically accurate illustration of a sprinter

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
July 5, 2023

Tagged
abiogenesis, amoebas, bad design, bad-design arguments, body plan, cancer, cancer research, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiovascular system, cellular life cycle, choking, coherence, complex interdependencies, constrained optimization, Darwinian Evolution, degradation, design evaluation, design optimization, dysteleology, engineering trade-offs, Evolution, fertilization, Howard Glicksman, human exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, life from life, Louis Pasteur, pharynx, physiological fine tuning, respiratory system, sexual reproduction, sodium pumps, spontaneous generation, Steve Laufmann, systems biology, theory of biological design, throat, whales, windpipe, Your Designed Body, zygote}

Engineering, not Evolution, Explains the Body

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July 5, 2023

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The groundbreaking recent book Your Designed Body is the focus of today’s ID the Future. Here in Part 2 of a two-part conversation with host Wesley J. Smith, the two authors, systems engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman, delve deeper into the exquisite, multi-layered fine tuning of the human body. They point to essential systems within systems within systems—irreducible complexity cubed, if you will. They also respond to the charge that aspects of the human body are poorly designed and, therefore, are supposedly better explained by the blind process of Darwinian evolution. Laufmann identifies five common errors that Darwinists make when pushing this bad-design argument. All of the errors involve an ignorance of key engineering principles, he says, one of them being a failure to consider the principle of constrained optimization. This episode is reposted at ID the Future by permission of Wesley J. Smith and the Humanize podcast. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
December 7, 2022

Tagged
alveoli, cardiovascular system, cascading problems, causal circularity, coherent interdependence, control mechanism, Evolution, fine tuning, goldilocks principle, hemoglobin, Howard Glicksman, human body, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, lungs, Michael Egnor, Neo-Darwinism, oxygen, respiration, respiratory system, Steve Laufmann, systems biology}

Your Designed Respiratory System: Causal Circularities and Irreducible Complexities

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December 7, 2022

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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 powerless to construct such wonders, Glicksman and Laufmann argue. The better explanation, they suggest, is the ingenious engineering of an intelligent designer. Get your copy of the book here.