Computer Scientist Joshua Swamidass Argues: Cancer "Casts Serious Doubt" on Intelligent Design

Joshua Swamidass is an assistant professor at Washington University's medical school, an MD and computer science PhD. He's associated with the theistic evolution advocacy group BioLogos, and at the organization's Open Forum page, Dr. Swamidass offers an argument against intelligent design from the existence of cancer.

Noting a new article he co-wrote in Nature Genetics ("Unsupervised detection of cancer driver mutations with parsimony-guided learning"), he says he wishes to point out the "u...