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Howard Glicksman

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Life as a Half-Full Glass

A 2018 book by biologist Nathan Lents is full of complaints about our bodies. Professor Lents has been answered in detail already. Read More ›
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The Year in Review: Intelligent Design Grows in Influence and Depth

Our researchers will continue to support and communicate what represents the earliest stages in the next great scientific revolution. Read More ›
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A Physician’s Fantastic Voyage through Your Designed Body

Begin by piling up the layers of complexity in the human body — the layer upon layer of complex interdependent systems. Read More ›
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Capabilities of Migrating Birds Deserve Awards and Recognition

New technologies are giving scientists global information on a wide variety of bird species. Read More ›
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Steve Laufmann: Is Biology Engineering?

Laufmann describes how his work as a systems engineer relates to the red hot field of systems biology. Read More ›
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Your Designed Respiratory System: Causal Circularities and Irreducible Complexities

There are individual systems that are irreducibly complex, and these are joined together into a higher-level system of systems. Read More ›
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The Human Body Handles Its Supply Chain Beautifully. Why Can’t Humans Do the Same?

We’ve lived for a couple of years now with the supply chain disaster, generated by COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Read More ›
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Your Designed Body: Hearing Is a Symphony of Parts

The human ear can detect sound when the eardrum is displaced by as little as one-tenth the diameter of a single hydrogen atom. Read More ›
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Listen: “Design Errors” in the Human Body?

Nathan Lents often ignores something basic to engineering — the necessity of design tradeoffs. Read More ›
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Your Designed Body: “Irreducible Complexity on Steroids”

How could blind evolutionary processes, such as neo-Darwinism’s mechanism of natural selection working on genetic mutations, build this bio-engineering marvel? Read More ›

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