Evolution Engineering the Human Body: “Impossible Squared”

Episode 1692 December 30, 2022 00:19:27
Evolution Engineering the Human Body: “Impossible Squared”
Intelligent Design the Future
Evolution Engineering the Human Body: “Impossible Squared”

Dec 30 2022 | 00:19:27

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Show Notes

On today’s ID the Future from the vault, systems engineer Steve Laufmann further explores physician Howard Glicksman’s 81-part Evolution News series on the human body’s sophisticated architecture. Here in Part 2 of the discussion, Laufmann explains the engineering concept of coherence and the challenge it poses for evolutionary gradualism. It’s all about maintaining function at every creative stage along an adaptive continuum, he says, and once we understand just how many of the body’s systems and subsystems require various other systems and subsystems in order to function at all, we begin to see the monster bootstrapping problem Darwinism faces. Laufmann describes the prospect of blind evolution successfully launching a complete and functional body plan as “impossible squared.” But we do Read More ›

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