The Medical Background to Intelligent Design

We've commented before that physicians (like engineers) have a special perspective on intelligent design. Why? Because they, more than evolutionary biologists, are acutely attuned to questions of function. Biological systems not only need to exist but to function properly. It's no use tracing a hypothetical path of evolutionary descent unless every living thing along that path was fully functional in the real world.

On a new ID the Future podcast, biologist Michael Denton talks about the int...