Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?

The intricate forms of living things bespeak design, and thus a creator: nearly 150 years after Darwin's theory of natural selection called this argument into question, we still speak of life in terms of design—the function of the eye, the purpose of the webbed foot, the design of the fins. Why is the "argument from design" so tenacious, and does Darwinism—itself still evolving after all these years—necessarily undo it?

The definitive work on these contentious questions, Darwin and Design s...