Your Amazing Body

Every day your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. Your body enables you to see and hear. It heals you from injuries and diseases. It maintains your temperature. It makes it possible for you to wield a sledgehammer during the day and play piano sonatas at night. Every minute your body choreographs a host of complex systems that are required for you to live.

Join engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman as they take you on an incredible journey exploring some of your body’s greatest marvels, including how your hearing and vision work, how you coordinate your movements, and-perhaps the greatest miracle of them all-how you developed from a single cell at conception. Along the way, you will discover compelling evidence that our bodies are the handiwork of a master designer and engineer.

Your Amazing Body is condensed and adapted from Your Designed Body (Discovery Institute Press, 2022).

Praise for Laufmann and Glicksman

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…. a most fantastic voyage of discovery.

Stephen C. Meyer, PhD, New York Times bestselling author of Darwin’s Doubt

The authors are particularly good at raising the relevant questions about how all of this engineering came to be. Evidence of design and intent are everywhere…. I particularly enjoyed the way the authors tackled claims about ‘botched design.’

David Galloway, MD; former President, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; author of Design Dissected

A fascinating description… The human body is an elegantly engineered system, complete with intracellular nanotechnology, organ-level interconnectivity, and whole-body integration of countless delicate and precise systems.

Michael Egnor, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook; 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. They make a compelling case that 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; President of the Fatty Acid Research Institute

A worthy and thorough addition to any person who seeks to discover, understand, and discuss the details of the human body’s marvelous design.

Anthony Lyle Donaldson, PhD, founding dean and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, California Baptist University

An excellent overview of the evidence demonstrating how the human body is the result of engineering design. The authors… also effectively refute arguments that there are many poorly designed elements of the human body.

Eric Cassell, longtime engineering consultant for NASA and the FAA, author of Animal Algorithms: Evolution and the Mysterious Origin of Ingenious Instincts

The authors show there is incomprehensible complexity upon complexity upon complexity within the human body… uncountable ‘chicken-and-egg’ scenarios found at all levels. Naturalism (Darwinism) fails miserably to explain these phenomena.

Geoffrey Simmons, MD, author of Billions of Missing Links