[jwalsh07]

"I have said that my analogy can't be stretched too far. It was intended as a way of explaining how selection forces can shape things. In a free market, consumers design things by their purchasing decisions. This is an abstract level of analysis, but conservative economists invented this concept, Darwin borrowed it, and that's the history of it."

Which is why your original analogy is poor. Any realistic model of technological change in the market place would have to incorporate design as well as selection which is what ID'rs hypothesize, hypothetically speaking of course.:-}

Better that both sides render unto Caesar what is Caesars.

[js1138]

One step at a time. The first step is to acknowledge the importance of natural selection. Molecular biology will eventually reveal the causes of variation.