# Room for Discussing Design in Evolution? **URL:** \ **Category:** Side Conversation\ **Created:** [August 11, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/room-for-discussing-design-in-evolution/1194 "2018-08-11T22:15:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3

**Author:** ![swamidass](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/swamidass/32/3_2.png) [@swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/swamidass)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/room-for-discussing-design-in-evolution/1194/3 "2018-08-11T22:32:37Z")

> [@Coyne, Craig and Swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/coyne-craig-and-swamidass/1111/13): > > The question I’m asking is this: In the context of evolutionary biology (or EC for that matter) is there room to discuss “significance” in terms of its obvious design benefits? Absolutely. Yes there is. There is a scientific account. In that scientific account, our discourse is limited. Outside science, however, as whole people we can see a bigger picture. We affirm that God created everything. He designed us all. Evolution cannot account for everything. Even if it is true, it remains throughly surprising that the world turned out the way it did. > [@Coyne, Craig and Swamidass](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/coyne-craig-and-swamidass/1111/13): > > In this case, I am referring to “design” as the shape that ended up to accommodate the more modern brain and potentially make birth less dangerous to the person being born? Not “design” as a trick wherein I’m going to say, "Ah Ha! You said “design” so there must be a Designer… Design is not an illusion. Science is blind to it, but we know that God created us. This is, at least for me, how I understand it. --- _[View the full topic](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/room-for-discussing-design-in-evolution/1194)._