The Puzzle of Perfection, Thirty Years On

Thirty years ago in his book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, Michael Denton (above) posed "The Puzzle of Perfection" as a challenge to Darwinism. He described molecular machines in the cell as phenomena inexplicable by chance. He predicted that what was known in 1985 was sure to grow, concluding:

It would be an illusion to think that what we are aware of at present is any more than a fraction of the full extent of biological design. In practically every field of fundamental biological researc...