Which battle do we want to fight? Do we want to try to convince lay people that they don’t really see the design that is stunningly obvious at every scale in biology, or would we rather try to persuade them that what Darwin has shown is that there can be design—real design, as real as it gets—without an Intelligent Designer? We have persuaded the world that atoms are not atomic, and that the Earth goes around the Sun. Why shrink from the pedagogical task of showing that there can be design without a designer? So I am defending here (once again, with new emphasis) the following claim: The
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