Superfluous Design: A Problem for Darwinism

In an ID the Future podcast, Michael Denton and David Berlinski discussed traits that exhibit perfection of design. The human eye, for instance, can detect single photons of light. You can't design a light detector better than that! The human language organ (vocal cords, etc.) are perfect, Berlinski says, for communicating abstract thoughts in the mind to others.

Many traits seem to go far beyond the requirements of mere survival. This, indeed, is a theme of Denton's new book, Evolution: Sti...