I was pleased that Dawkins had decided to weigh in. He had previously declined an invitation from the president of our institute to debate me, stating, “Your people haven’t earned it.” So his direct engagement not only represented a concession of sorts; it also yielded an opportunity to test the strength of my case against an objection from a prominent critic of intelligent design. As it turned out, in their attempts to circumvent the information problem, both Dawkins and Krauss had to misrepresent how the neo-Darwinian mechanism works. Natural selection itself is arguably a “nonrandom
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