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The Respiratory System (Your Designed Body)

Engineer Steve Laufmann discusses the respiratory system. Laufmann is co-author of the book Your Designed Body: https://YourDesignedBody.com Every day, your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. In the book, Your Designed Body, systems engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman explore this extraordinary system of thousands of ingenious and interdependent engineering solutions that Read More ›

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The Two Hard Problems in Life (Your Designed Body)

There are two really hard problems in life. The first is simply, being alive. And secondarily, reproducing life. Both are extraordinarily complicated. Engineer Steve Laufmann discusses these two hard problems. Laufmann is co-author of the book Your Designed Body: https://YourDesignedBody.com Every day, your body must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you’ll die. In the book, Your Read More ›

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Young pea (Pisum) sprouts in a sunny vegetable garden
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The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

But eliminating suffering is impossible. Not only is the goal Utopian, but it leads to ever-more-extreme distortions of decency and a collapse of public policy rationality—which ironically, can cause the very “evil” that suffering abolitionists yearn so desperately to prevent. Read More ›
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Science and Faith in Dialogue

Science and Faith in Dialogue

The book argues that modern science provides undeniable evidence and a scientific basis for these classical arguments to infer a rationally justifiable endorsement of theism as being concordant with reason and science — nature is seen as operating orderly on comprehensible, rational, consistent laws, in line with the conviction that God is Creator. Read More ›