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Howard Glicksman

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Sleep — Designed for Our Good

The evolutionary mindset operates as a major obstacle to the scientific understanding of sleep. Read More ›
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Liquid Harmony: How Our Bodies Manage Salt and Water

Left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward degradation and death, not life. Read More ›
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How We Balance Water and Sodium to Maintain Life

On their own, the laws of nature don’t tend toward life. To stay alive, living things utilize ingenious solutions. Read More ›
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The Sense of Hearing Is a Masterpiece of Engineering

It strains credulity to suppose that an unguided process of random variation sifted by natural selection could assemble such a delicately arranged system. Read More ›
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The Miracle of Man: Reflections on the Westminster Conference

Dr. Miller gives a brief summary of his talk on the fine-tuning of human vision. We’ll be doing a full episode with him on that subject soon. Read More ›
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Dr. Glicksman: How Life Leverages the Laws of Nature

In the “just so” stories of the Darwinian narrative, these engineering solutions simply evolved. They emerged and got conserved. Read More ›
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Listen: The Innovative Cellular Engineering That Keeps Us Alive

When left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward death, not life. So what does it take for life to exist? Read More ›
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Engineering, not Evolution, Explains the Body

Laufmann and Glicksman point to essential systems within systems within systems — irreducible complexity cubed, if you will. Read More ›
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The Human Body as a Marvel of Engineering

“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.” Read More ›
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Balance: Bipeds Need It; Where Did It Come From?

“The calyx appeared,” says Dr. Rob Raphael. A more magical explanation could hardly be fabricated. Read More ›

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