Nothing tentative about that, is there, Professor Behe?
A No, I think it’s quite tentative in the context of what I just read. It says the intelligent design hypothesis is in agreement with. The way I’m reading it is that it is not in conflict with the face value interpretation because intelligent design doesn’t speak to common descent. It only says that we can detect design in some physical features of life. So it does not conflict with intelligent design — to the intelligent design hypothesis, as it might with one of the tenants of Darwin s theory as written by Ernst Mayr, gradualism, and perhaps common descent as well. So the way I see that is in fact they’re saying, well, there is no conflict between intelligent design and the face value — or the face value interpretation.
