The Deeper Issues of the Worm Video Debate: Ursula Goodenough's Hypothesis

In response to the Discovery Institute video "How to Build a Worm," distinguished evolutionary biologist Ursula Goodenough at Washington University has proposed a solution to the puzzle we raise. Her solution fails, but its failure is instructive, because it reinforces the main point of the video: Whatever brought the process of animal development into existence must have been a cause with foresight.

I met Ursula Goodenough in February 2006, when she, Michael Ruse, and I participated in a sy...