We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

The trap does not work until all the parts were there. The system itself doesn't work until you fit all of them together.

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.