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Design Up to Scratch? A Comparison of Design in Buckland (1832) and Behe
Roberts, MB. 1999.  PSCF 51(4):244-257. CELD ID 14704

Abstract
ntelligent Design has attracted both its supporters and denigrators. Behe's Darwin's Black Box has been a secular best seller. This paper1compares Intelligent Design with nineteenth century Paleyan design, by comparing the philosophy and methods of Buckland's lecture on "Megatherium" in 1832 with Behe's philosophy in Darwin's Black Box. Buckland regarded every detail as showing design and practiced reverse engineering, but Behe regards only the unexplained to show design. To put it pithily; Buckland saw the demonstration of design in explaining. Behe sees the demonstration of design in not explaining.