Non-Adaptive Order and Intelligent Design

In a series of brief interviews welcoming his new book Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, Discovery Institute biologist Michael Denton has hammered on the "existential" challenge to Darwinism from non-adaptive order. In other words, Darwin's theory insists on natural selection as the (mindless) sculptor of life at every step along evolution's path.

But that process preserves only adaptive features, not abstract patterns that serve an aesthetic purpose or, to all appearances, none at all....