Time Machine: An Early Argument for Intelligent Design

Author's note : To paraphrase Barbara Mandrell, I was ID when ID wasn't cool. What, intelligent design still isn't cool, you say? Oh...well, compared to 1985 it is.

I offer for your interest the Postscript to my 1985 Springer book, Analysis of a Finite Element Method: PDE/PROTRAN . This Postscript draws an analogy between the evolution of the software described in the book (now called PDE2D) and the evolution of life, and it is primarily about irreducible complexity, although Michael Behe woul...