Dawkins weighs in on Intelligent Design theory
Spiked Science surveyed a truly impressive number of scientists to ask what single thing they would most like to teach to the world.
Richard Dawkins chose to address Intelligent Design directly:
Not only can natural selection mimic design; it is the only known natural process that can mimic design. And now, here is the most difficult thing that I wish people understood. True design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything, because the designer himself is left unexplained. Designers are statistically improbable things, and trying to explain them as made by prior designers is ultimately futile, because it leads to an infinite regress.
Natural selection escapes the infinite regress, because it starts simple, and works up gradually - step by step - to statistical improbability, and the illusion of design.