Chemistry Nobel Prize Based on Design Inference

This month's announcement of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry should cause design advocates to celebrate. We have just seen the biggest prize for science go to three biologists who made a design inference about genetic information. Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar shared the prestigious honor for their work on DNA repair mechanisms.

Of course, intelligent design was never mentioned in the Nobel Committee's announcement, either the popular version or the scientific version. We know a...