Checkpoints and Repair Systems as Evidence for Design

John Coley at Northeastern University wants to help his biology students "avoid misconceptions about science." It's wrong to state, "Zebras developed stripes to avoid predators," he explains at PhysOrg.

[E]volution doesn't involve "forward thinking," or intention -- ancestral zebras didn't sprout stripes to blend in with their surroundings. Rather, given a population of zebra-like animals varying in stripedness, those with abundant verticals had a selective advantage over their plainer rela...