what is intelligent design?

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geometry_hater · Answer

Intelligent Design is studying the patterns in nature Nature that are best explained as the result of intelligence.

pfenn1 · Answer

Intelligent design is a new name for "creationism".

anonymous · Answer

I believe the argument goes something like...
- Take an object found in nature. An eye, for example.
- The eye is incredibly complex. Take one part of it away, and it would completely breakdown.
- Therefore, the eye could not have evolved; rather, the parts appear to have needed to been "assembled."
- The most logical explanation then, would be an unnamed "intelligent designer" .

The problem is: those crafty evolutionary biologists have tested and disproven this idea...there are, indeed, plausible mechanisms for the evolution of apparently "irreducibly complex" structures like the eye.

anonymous · Answer

kma230 gives a good answer - it's important to state that "Intelligent Design" is looked on with disdain by the scientific community. Evolution is based on reason