Self-Folding Robot Suggests Answer to Common Objection to Intelligent Design

An article that recently appeared on Google News, "Origami robot doesn't need a human to assemble itself and start working," has a fascinating video of a self-folding robot that mimics the way proteins or insect wings spontaneously fold into their functional form.

This suggests an answer to a common objection to the theory of intelligent design. The objection, stated in various forms by thinkers dating back to David Hume, goes something like this:

We do observe that intelligent designers build...