Nature "Learns" to Create Complexity? Think Again

Editor's note: Evolution News is delighted to welcome Brendan Dixon as a new contributor. He is a software architect who joined Biologic Institute in 2006 to design and build the software for the Stylus project. He has worked for Microsoft, IBM, and Apple.

An article in the print edition of New Scientist is titled provocatively: "Intelligent design without a designer." It acknowledges "evolution's incredible prowess as a designer," and asks:

For centuries, the apparent perfection of [nature'...