Like Clockwork: Seeking Intent and Intelligence in Design and Adaptation
Proponents of intelligent design assert that life is far too variegated and complex to have evolved without the presence of an overarching, creative intelligence. In this essay, I will argue that intelligent design need not, ipso facto, proceed from a fundamentally creationist perspective any more than must Darwinian theory and that both can be put forth as scientific theory. The presence of coherent and purposeful information within nature serves as evidence of intelligence and, as such, precludes the possibility that happenstance, or “accident,” alone is at work in nature. I will conclude that evolution and the adaptability of species, and ...
