Kirk Durston‘s Thoughts on Intelligent Design   In this thread, I would like to lay out my own thinking regarding a method to detect or identify examples of intelligent design. I then would like to unpack my thinking in a slow, meticulous (pedantic perhaps?) way and, if we can get that far, apply it to a few examples, including a protein, and the minimal genome.   Defining ‘Intelligent Design’:   I commonly see the term ‘intelligent design’ used in two ways. An example of the first way is in a magazine headline I saw this morning:   ‘Evolution by Intelligent Design’   The above example is similar to the way ‘planning’ is used in, ‘Success through good planning.’   In … Continue reading Durston Cont’d