As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very popular. For the record, I have no reason to doubt that the universe is the billions of years old that physicists say it is. Further, I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

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

Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.

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

In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.

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

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.