It’s a question we often get, and it’s difficult to answer. The deliberations of the Intelligent Design Committee are embargoed for fifty years. We had the opportunity to pose this question to a member of the Committee. The reply was couched in general terms. “We take into account many factors in awarding the Intelligent Design Prize. Societal impact is one of them. How much does an agent disrupt a society? And how to quantify that. Is it mortality, morbidity, or general suffering, perhaps the decline in GDP or the stock market? On the Committee we ponder and debate these sorts of things. And then there are many ways to evaluate an intelligent design in itself. Has it been designed with breakthrough technology, something never seen before? Or is it a very efficient design, has it been fine-tuned? For example, some argued that Yersinia pestis is not a very elegant design, not an advance over any other gram-negative bacillus. But, boy, you can’t argue with its impact. A third of Europe or Athens pacified—that’s a very impressive achievement. So at the very least, societal impact will get our attention, and, you know, when we analyze the design of something like this—an agent having such success—we often find ingenious Complex and Specified Information that warrants our bestowal of the Prize.”