Each Time Genomic "Junk" Turns Out to Be Functional, the Case for Intelligent Design Gets Stronger

William Dembski argued in No Free Lunch that intelligent design theory yields no false positives: the Design Filter he modeled doesn't allow them. False negatives might slip through -- things that look random but are in fact designed, like some recent works of art one can think of. But the filter is robust with respect to things that look designed but can be explained by natural law or chance, like snowflakes and tornados.

In this context, ID gains confidence by not finding false positives i...