What if Evolution is Compatible with Design After All?

[Roy (30-year veteran)]

@Rope

Thanks Roy! There’s certainly plenty of people who reject the compatibility of evolution and design, and the compatibility of evolution and biological design arguments. If you need sources for this, I think there should be lots in the open access publications I’ve linked, and more in the book.

There are plenty of people who (correctly) reject the compatibility of specific evolutionary and design scenarios. YEC and common descent are incompatible, for example. But I know of no-one who rejects the compatibility of any evolution and design explanations (or arguments for them).

Jeavons probably does not mention those examples, because his article is a response to / evaluation of my book in which I do also point out examples of genetic algorithms producing designs that were unanticipated.

Perhaps we’re talking past each other, since I doubt English is your main language. There’s a difference between finding an unanticipated solution that fits the implementer’s goal but doesn’t resemble anything the implementer had envisaged (such as this radio antenna), vs an unanticipated solution that doesn’t fit the implementer’s goal because of a flaw in the fitness function.