CAN intelligent design – the idea that certain features of living organisms are too complex to have arisen by Darwinian evolution – ever lead to good science? The question is not rhetorical. At the Biologic Institute near Seattle, researchers are conducting lab work they say will both strengthen the case for intelligent design (ID) and improve science (see “The God Lab”).
How they hope to do this is not clear. The view of many scientists is similar to that of Leonard Krishtalka, director of the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas, who once called ID “creationism in a cheap…
