Evolutionist Denis Alexander approvingly recounts a story of a life scientist student who, upon learning about the intricacies and beauty of DNA packaging, concluded the scheme must have been designed. [62] But elsewhere Alexander finds that the Intelligent Design theory is guilty of designer-of-the-gaps reasoning [304ff].
So why is the design inference sometimes permissable and other times not permissable? The answer appears to be in Alexander’s caricature of design theory. He writes that many IDs:
believe that only through the gaps in our present knowledge do we have incontrovertible evidence that God is at work in design. [305]
Alexander gives no citations of examples of IDs holding so to such a belief. Is there a single mainstream ID proponent who has ever promoted this notion?