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Secrets of the Human Body is a new YouTube series that will unravel the mysteries of the human body and explore its exquisite intelligent design.

Episodes

Engineered for Oxygen

The Center for Science and Culture
September 1, 2025
Secrets of the Human Body
Without enough oxygen, your body will die. In Episode 1 of Secrets of the Human Body, learn about the astonishing engineering of the body that allows it to harness oxygen’s power and keep us alive.

Companion Book

Your Amazing Body

Continue your exploration with the short book Your Amazing Body. Join engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman as they take you on an incredible journey exploring some of your body’s greatest marvels. Along the way, you will discover compelling evidence that our bodies are the handiwork of a master designer and engineer.

Meet the Experts

Steve Laufmann

Steve Laufmann is a speaker, author, computer scientist, and consultant in the design of enterprise-class systems, with expertise in the difficulties of changing complex systems to perform new tasks. He leads the Engineering Research Group at Discovery Institute and chaired the program committee for the 2021 Conference on Engineering in Living Systems. He is co-author, with Howard Glicksman, of Your Designed Body (2022). When he can’t think of anything else to do, he enjoys landscape photography, pizza, and old movies.

Howard Glicksman

Dr. Howard Glicksman has been a general practitioner for over forty-five years. He is now a consultant who mentors physicians in the management of fluid overload, especially due to heart failure. He received his MD from the University of Toronto and is the author of “The Designed Body” series for Science and Culture Today. Glicksman further develops the arguments from this series in a book co-authored with systems engineer Steve Laufmann, Your Designed Body (2022).

Michael Denton

Senior Fellow, Centers for Science & Culture and on Human Exceptionalism
Michael Denton holds an M.D. from Bristol University, as well as a Ph.D. in biochemistry from King’s College in London. A Senior Fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, Denton has had a critical impact on the debate over Darwinian evolution.