Why Should Evolutionary Biology Be So Different?

Author's note: The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of my new book Christianity for Doubters. An earlier version was published at Evolution News. As the books title indicates, much of this book is explicitly theological, but the first two chapters are about intelligent design, not theology. In the Preface, I write: "Of course, you do not have to believe anything in Chapters 3-6 of this book or anything in the Bible to believe in intelligent design.... In fact, some intelligent design ad...