Is this Phenomenon in Fact Intelligent Design?
A very, very fascinating study.
It certainly seems like there is something more than just random Darwinian natural selection going on here. How could precisely the same series of 4 mutations, leading to precisely the same evolutionary target configuration, occur just by chance in 24 out of the 96 cell lines?
It almost seems as if the evolutionary target configuration that the virus arrived at was somehow known in advance to be the optimum solution, and that the 4 steps to get to that target configuration were taken out AFTER this target configuration had been decided in advance.
The idea that some guiding and calculating intelligence may play a role in evolution is known as intelligent design (ID). Intelligent design may be based on some quantum effects that allows evolution to be more than just a random trial and error mechanism as described by Darwinian natural selection. Intelligent design theory posits that these optimum configurations of evolution are pre-calculated in some way.
Could the very intriguing results of this study offer some evidence that evolution takes places using Intelligent design, as opposed to (or in addition to) Darwinian natural selection?
