Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
Michael BeheProteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.
Michael BeheIt is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.
Michael BeheWe are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
Michael BeheIn Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
Michael BeheThe first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather, it is the opposite of Darwinism, which says life evolved by an utterly unguided, undirected mechanism. If god directed the process of evolution, or rigged the universe to produce complex life, then that is not Darwinism - it is intelligent design.
Michael Behe