As Far As Design Theorists

Natural Selection Certainly Operates. It Explains How Bacteria Will Gain Antibiotic Resistance; It Will Explain How Insects Get Insecticide Resistance, But It Doesn't Explain How You Get Bacteria Or Insects In The First Place.

How A Designer Gets From Thought To Thing Is, At Least In Broad Strokes, Straightforward: (1) A Designer Conceives A Purpose. (2) To Accomplish That Purpose, The Designer Forms A Plan. (3) To Execute The Plan, The Designer Specifies Building Materials And Assembly Instructions. (4) Finally, The Designer Or Some Surrogate Applies The Assembly Instructions To The Building Materials. What Emerges Is A Designed Object, And The Designer Is Successful To The Degree That The Object Fulfills The Designer's Purpose.

As Far As Design Theorists Are Concerned, Theistic Evolution Is American Evangelicalism's Ill-conceived Accommodation To Darwinism .

Constrained Optimization Is The Art Of Compromise Between Conflicting Objectives. This Is What Design Is All About. To Find Fault With Biological Design - As Stephen Jay Gould Regularly Does - Because It Misses Some Idealized Optimum Is Therefore Gratuitous. Not Knowing The Objectives Of The Designer, Gould Is In No Position To Say Whether The Designer Has Proposed A Faulty Compromise Among Those Objectives.

Without A Unified Political Climate Of Opinion, There Is Little Or No Political Profit In Doing The Right Thing.