"...
My own view is that Sheldrake and intelligent design are
much closer than would be obvious from his public
statements about ID. Indeed, I think our differences are
much more linguistic and idiomatic than anything else.
Take his concern that intelligent design commits one to
a mechanistic conception of life. This would be true if ID
required that the structure of organisms be imposed
from outside by an architect or artisan in which the
parts have no intrinsic relation to the whole. But ID does
not require that. ID only requires that there be clear
marks of intelligence in living systems..."
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2015/05/a_design-theori096001.html
