"Sometimes the word indicates simply descent with modification, leaving open the question of how the staggering changes in life forms could possibly have occurred. Other times Darwins particular mechanism of natural selection is added to the meaning. It is critical for people interested in the subject to understand, when they hear it said that evolution is supported by overwhelming evidence, that virtually all of the evidence concerns just common descent. The experimental evidence that natural selection could build a vertebrate from an invertebrate, a mammal from a reptile, or a human from an ape is a bit less than the experimental evidence for superstring theorythat is, none at all.
Icons of evolution such as Haeckels embryos, peppered moths, and classic originoflife experiments have been shown to be more mythic than scientific, even though they still live as textbook orthodoxy. One prominent evolutionary biologist recently wrote, In sciences pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics.
The claim I make is this: design is always inferred, it is never a direct intuition. We dont get into the mind of designers and thereby attribute design. Rather we look at effects in the physical world that seem to have been designed and from those features infer to a designing intelligence."
Michael Behe
A pretty quote, but so far they've done a poor job of trying to show us how they plan on going about it.