It Was Only About Sixty Years Ago

It Is Often Said That Science Must Avoid Any Conclusions Which Smack Of The Supernatural.

For Example, Both Humans And Chimps Have A Broken Copy Of A Gene That In Other Mammals Helps Make Vitamin C. ... It's Hard To Imagine How There Could Be Stronger Evidence For Common Ancestry Of Chimps And Humans. ... Despite Some Remaining Puzzles, There's No Reason To Doubt That Darwin Had This Point Right, That All Creatures On Earth Are Biological Relatives.

The Basic Structure Of Proteins Is Quite Simple: They Are Formed By Hooking Together In A Chain Discrete Subunits Called Amino Acids.

The Conclusion Of Intelligent Design Flows Naturally From The Data Itself - Not From Sacred Books Or Sectarian Beliefs. Inferring That Biochemical Systems Were Designed By An Intelligent Agent Is A Humdrum Process That Requires No New Principles Of Logic Or Science. It Comes Simply From The Hard Work That Biochemistry Has Done Over The Past Forty Years, Combined With Consideration Of The Way In Which We Reach Conclusions Of Design Every Day.

I Find The Idea Of Common Descent (that All Organisms Share A Common Ancestor) Fairly Convincing, And Have No Particular Reason To Doubt It.