{"id":40911,"date":"2022-11-23T06:16:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T14:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/?p=40911"},"modified":"2024-10-15T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:00:39","slug":"1679","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/1679\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Medved Spotlights the New Book, Your Designed Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On today\u2019s <strong>ID the Future<\/strong>, radio host Michael Medved spotlights <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1637120206\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Your Designed Body<\/a><\/em>, the new book from Discovery Institute Press by systems engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman. Laufmann joins Medved on the show to offer a quick flyover of the book and to explain why he sees the human body as not only designed but designed by a master engineer, light years ahead of our best human engineers. Laufmann says that the human body is an interdependent system of systems that poses grave challenges for the Darwinian mechanism of gradual evolution by natural selection, but more than this, when the human body is studied using well-established engineering principles, we find that it anticipates numerous advanced engineering concepts and techniques. What about aspects of the human body that are said to be badly designed or vestigial? Laufmann also touches on that in the interview, but to get his extended rebuttal, get your copy of the book <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1637120206\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On today\u2019s ID the Future, radio host Michael Medved spotlights Your Designed Body, the new book from Discovery Institute Press by systems engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman. Laufmann joins Medved on the show to offer a quick flyover of the book and to explain why he sees the human body as not only designed but designed by a master engineer, light years ahead of our best human engineers. Laufmann says that the human body is an interdependent system of systems that poses grave challenges for the Darwinian mechanism of gradual evolution by natural selection, but more than this, when the human body is studied using well-established engineering principles, we find that it anticipates numerous advanced engineering concepts and<a class=\"ellipsis article-more\" href=\"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/1679\/\"><span> Read More &rsaquo;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":40912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","sync_status":"synced","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/4b200704-8e91-431b-a896-9f397a17cb0b-IDTF-1679-SteveLaufmann-Medved-YDB.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"1143912","podmotor_episode_id":"1331579","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:21:17","filesize":"12.7 mb","filesize_raw":"13366557","date_recorded":"2022-11-23 06:16:04","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1679","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-40911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Steve Laufmann"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/YourDesignedBody-1600x840-1.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/idthefuture-cover.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-download\/40911\/1679.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/40911\/1679.mp3","audio_player":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-40911-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/40911\/1679.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/40911\/1679.mp3\">https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/40911\/1679.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/feed\/podcast\/intelligent-design-the-future","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kPs1JnrzRY\"><a href=\"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/1679\/\">Michael Medved Spotlights the New Book, Your Designed Body<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/1679\/embed\/#?secret=kPs1JnrzRY\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Michael Medved Spotlights the New Book, Your Designed Body&#8221; &#8212; ID the Future\" data-secret=\"kPs1JnrzRY\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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