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Howard Glicksman

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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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Attempts to Reconcile Evolutionary Theory with Christianity Lead to Intractable Tensions 

The fundamental premise of evolutionary theory is that humans are the product of an undirected process that did not have us in mind. Read More ›
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For Darwinism, Pregnancy Is the “Mother of all Chicken-and-Egg Problems”

Evolutionary biologists tend to silently glide over such issues, which clearly point to intelligent design. Read More ›
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Look: On Thanksgiving, Be Grateful for the Intelligent Design of Your Eyes

Eyes were quite the sudden, unanticipated gift in the history of life. Charles Darwin expected that they must have developed from simple forerunners. Read More ›
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Laufmann: Billions of Ways to Die! 

Engineer Steve Laufmann explains a basic reality that evolutionary biologists overlook. Read More ›
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New Book Offers a Fresh Test for Human Origins: Explain Your Own Body

Whatever other challenges it may introduce in our lives, money has this virtue: it doesn’t lie. Read More ›

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