Michael Lynch Is at It Again, Trying to Evolve Molecular Machines by Blind Mechanisms

Despite intellectual and scientific roots going much further back, the modern intelligent design movement (if that label is appropriate; Paul Nelson thinks it's more of an ID community) was launched arguably in 1991 with Phillip Johnson's Darwin on Trial. In that book and others, Johnson identified the central question of evolution as whether unguided processes are creative. Could blind, aimless variation and natural selection produce the exquisite instances of design (real or apparent) we se...