Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The belief that physical and biological systems observed in the universe result chiefly from purposeful design by an intelligent being rather than from chance and other undirected natural processes.
- noun The purposeful design perceived in the universe or one of its parts and attributed to such a being.
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- proper noun A
conjecture claiming thatbiological 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.
Etymologies
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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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polymorph commented on the word intelligent design
This phrase makes me LoL almost more than moral majority.
"Our neoconservatives are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell."
- Edward Abbey
April 14, 2007
mialuthien commented on the word intelligent design
"Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church."
July 20, 2008
seanahan commented on the word intelligent design
Of course, there is no law preventing preventing prayer in school.
July 21, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word intelligent design
Words this looks like when I squint.
August 26, 2008