Intelligent Design Definition
noun
The concept that the order and complexity seen in nature must be the result of a rational design, as by God, and that natural processes such as evolution are insufficient to account for them entirely.
Webster's New World
The purposeful design perceived in the universe or one of its parts and attributed to such a being.
American Heritage
pronoun
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.
Wiktionary
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Wiktionary
Origin of Intelligent Design
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Became a standard and widely promoted term 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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