Definitions for intelligent design
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1. intelligent designnoun

   A conjecture claiming that biological life on Earth, or more broadly, the universe as a whole, was created by a (specified or unspecified) intelligent agent rather than being the result of undirected natural processes.

2. Etymology: Coined in the 1987 draft of Of Pandas and People by Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon, as a repackaging of the term creationism after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the teaching of creationism in Edwards v. Aguillard (1987).

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1. Intelligent Design

   Intelligent design is a form of creationism promulgated by the Discovery Institute, a politically conservative think tank based in the U.S. The Institute defines it as the proposition that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection." It is a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, presented by its advocates as "an evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins" rather than "a religious-based idea". All the leading proponents of intelligent design are associated with the Discovery Institute and believe the designer to be the Christian deity. Scientific acceptance of Intelligent Design would require redefining science to allow supernatural explanations of observed phenomena, an approach its proponents describe as theistic realism or theistic science. It puts forth a number of arguments in support of the existence of a designer, the most prominent of which are irreducible complexity and specified complexity. The scientific community rejects the extension of science to include supernatural explanations in favor of continued acceptance of methodological naturalism, and has rejected both irreducible complexity and specified complexity for a wide range of conceptual and factual flaws. Intelligent design is viewed as a pseudoscience by the scientific community, because it lacks empirical support, offers no tenable hypotheses, and aims to describe natural history in terms of scientifically untestable supernatural causes.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of intelligent design in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

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   The numerical value of intelligent design in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of intelligent design in a Sentence

1. Richard Maloon:

   Anyone who believes in intelligent design is going to make us the laughingstock of the world and they'll call us the second (Scopes) Monkey Trial. So he's not on my radar.

2. George F. Will, Newsweek, July 4, 2005:

   The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's curriculum.

3. Aloo Denish:

   Behe's concept of Irreducible Complexity sparks curiosity among scientists, caught between Darwinian theory and the possibility of Intelligent Design. Regardless of whether Irreducible Complexity will gain full scientific legitimacy, will be deemed a creationist theory, or will become a point of convergence between Science and Faith, it is interestingly an additional fuel to the scientific quest. - Aloo Denish

4. James Lileks:

   I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Intelligent_Design
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=intelligent design