Your Designed Body
Consider your body. Every day it must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you'll die. While you're going about your daily business, your body stores, retrieves, translates, and manages software for thousands of proteins, switches, setpoints, thresholds, feedback loops, coordinate systems, counters, and timers. It disassembles thousands of different complex molecules, converts them into their building blocks, absorbs the building blocks, then reassembles them into the legions of chemicals and proteins that keep you going.
Your body also safely transports hazardous chemicals to where they're needed, without spilling them in places where they'd do harm, and employs them as it orchestrates thousands of complex processes and movements, some nearly instantaneous. At the same time it defends itself against threats large and small, and reproduces its own parts to replace those that are wearing out. And this is only a tiny portion of what your body must do to remain alive-all without conscious input from you.
In Your Designed Body, systems engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman explore this extraordinary system of systems encompassing thousands of ingenious and interdependent engineering solutions. They present a compelling case that no gradual evolutionary pathway could have achieved this, and that instead it must be the handiwork of a masterful designer-engineer.
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"A masterful synthesis of modern medicine and engineering, revealing a human body brimming not only with biological information and ingenious molecular machines, but also with exquisitely engineered systems and subsystems that resemble but exceed the most advanced engineering techniques of our best engineers."-Stephen C. Meyer, PhD, philosopher of science and bestselling author of Darwin's Doubt and Return of the God Hypothesis
"The machinery, integration, and control in human physiology is truly astounding. Your Designed Body provides an excellent and systematic overview of the biological engineering and does so with great insight... Evidence of design and intent are everywhere... I particularly enjoyed the way the authors tackled claims about 'botched design' as well as the implications of following the evidence to its obvious conclusion."-David Galloway, MD; former President, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; Honorary Professor of Surgery, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow; author of Design Dissected
"Your Designed Body tells the captivating story of how modern medical science reveals the engineering marvels inside our skin. It's a magnificent and much-needed accomplishment-the indispensable book on the intelligent design of the human body."-Michael Egnor, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook; former Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery; member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hydrocephalus Association; named one of New York's best doctors by New York Magazine
"A brilliant tour of the mind-boggling interactive complexity of the human body... only an intelligent agent could possibly have accommodated the millions of design constraints needed to produce a living, breathing, moving, thinking, and reproducing organism like us."-William S. Harris, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota
"A wonderful book!... As engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman wonderfully tell, the human body provides an almost inexhaustible and continually unfolding array of complex and designer-orchestrated systems that continue to be tapped for inspiration by the astute and discerning engineer."-Anthony Lyle Donaldson, PhD, founding dean and current Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Gordon and Jill Bourns College of Engineering at California Baptist University
"Your Designed Body is an excellent addition to the rapidly growing library of scientific discussions and books that show us how all aspects of the human being, from conception to death and from macroscopic to sub-microscopic, reflect incomprehensible forethought, irreducible complexity, and complex design. The authors show there is incomprehensible complexity upon complexity upon complexity within the human body. Everything is too coincidental to be a coincidence (per Yogi Berra)."-Geoffrey Simmons, MD, former Governor of the American Academy of Disaster Medicine (AADM), author of What Darwin Didn't Know
