Telling imaginative stories is a favorite pastime for evolutionary theorists. Intelligent design advocates don’t tell stories, which is one reason that some people express frustration with ID. These critics want a narrative, an explanation that you can picture in your head like a movie. That isn’t forthcoming for the simple reason that the “how” of the design act or acts seems not to be accessible to science, at least not now.
Instead, ID scientists like Douglas Axe, author of Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed, focus on objective evidence outside a narrative framework. Often, that is math.
In a brief video conversation, Dr. Axe clarifies the meaning of the word “search.” Unguided evolution, if it’s work, is a process of aimless search, without a goal or intelligence to assist the search. When we consider the number of organisms that have lived in the history of Earth, and the extreme precision of a functioning protein fold as a building block of life, the math challenge for Darwinism is beyond daunting. It’s impossible.