Science Is Not A Game In Which

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.

We Can Look High Or We Can Look Low In Books Or In Journals, But The Result Is The Same. The Scientific Literature Has No Answers To The Question Of The Origin Of The Immune System.

The Strong Appearance Of Design [in Nature] Allows A Disarmingly Simple Argument: If It Looks, Walks And Quacks Like A Duck, Then, Absent Compelling Evidence To The Contrary, We Have Warrant To Conclude It's A Duck. Design Should Not Be Overlooked Simply Because It's So Obvious.

As Commonly Understood, Creationism Involves Belief In An Earth Formed Only About Ten Thousand Years Ago, An Interpretation Of The Bible That Is Still Very Popular. For The Record, I Have No Reason To Doubt That The Universe Is The Billions Of Years Old That Physicists Say It Is. Further, I Find The Idea Of Common Descent (that All Organisms Share A Common Ancestor) Fairly Convincing, And Have No Particular Reason To Doubt It.

The Theory Of Undirected Evolution Is Already Dead, But The Work Of Science Continues.