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Throughout History There Have Been Many Other Examples, Similar To That Of Haeckel, Huxley And The Cell, Where A Key Piece Of A Particular Scientific Puzzle Was Beyond The Understanding Of The Age.

A Man From A Primitive Culture Who Sees An Automobile Might Guess That It Was Powered By The Wind Or By An Antelope Hidden Under The Car, But When He Opens Up The Hood And Sees The Engine He Immediately Realizes That It Was Designed.

The Conclusion Of Intelligent Design Flows Naturally From The Data Itself - Not From Sacred Books Or Sectarian Beliefs. Inferring That Biochemical Systems Were Designed By An Intelligent Agent Is A Humdrum Process That Requires No New Principles Of Logic Or Science. It Comes Simply From The Hard Work That Biochemistry Has Done Over The Past Forty Years, Combined With Consideration Of The Way In Which We Reach Conclusions Of Design Every Day.

It Was A Shock To People Of The Nineteenth Century When They Discovered, From Observations Science Had Made, That Many Features Of The Biological World Could Be Ascribed To The Elegant Principle Of Natural Selection.

In Many Biological Structures Proteins Are Simply Components Of Larger Molecular Machines.