[Gondring]

...why can't design be an inherent property within the system?

Natural Selection isn't "random"...it is "design within a system" in the form of an alogorithm of selecting the more effective direction. While it won't always proceed in the direction of what might be a most-efficient end structure, it does work to build complexity and functinality. In fact, "Natural Selection" is now being used in many fields where a computer model is allowed to select parameters that are applied in a next generation of a computer model...after repeated runs, the computer model is able to improve itself and get closer to a solution.

Behe seems to have missed the past 10 years, where it can be seen that intermediate steps do occur on the path to complex structures, sometimes for entirely different functions from the "final" structure.

[piytar]

you are leaving out part of the theory of evolution. while you are correct about natural selection, you are missing the first step: random mutation that creates the field from which natural selection occurs. the scientist’s point here is that random mutation does not generate enough variability from which to evolve certain aspects of even simple life through natural selection.

[zencat]

Natural Selection isn't "random"...it is "design within a system" in the form of an algorithm of selecting the more effective direction.

Natural selection isn't random - it's based on the organisms environment, the mutations that are involved in in the selection/non-selection process however are non-directed, at least according to orthodox biology

[zencat]

Natural Selection isn't "random"...it is "design within a system" in the form of an algorithm of selecting the more effective direction.

Natural selection isn't random - it's based on the organisms environment, the mutations that are involved in in the selection/non-selection process however are non-directed, at least according to orthodox biology