Egnor’s guiding principle was to follow the evidence wherever it leads. He decided the best explanation for why living things function as if they were designed is that they were designed. “I came to see that Darwinism is a philosophical bias more than coherent science. Darwinian processes may explain some patterns and changes in gene frequency in populations, but the evidence does not even remotely support the claim that chance and necessity fully account for the appearance of complex design in living things.”
