Does Cancer Build Anything New? A Response to Josh Swamidass

As Evolution News has noted, Professor S. Joshua Swamidass raises some interesting points at the BioLogos Open Forum page ("Cancer and Evolutionary Theory"). He recently published a paper in Nature Genetics on a new computational means to identify "driver" mutations involved in the progression of cancer. In commenting on his own paper he makes the argument that cancer evolves, which "does not in itself prove evolution is true" but "casts serious doubt on the [intelligent design] arguments fr...