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intelligent design en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

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 creationism after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against its teaching in Edwards v. Aguillard (1987).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The belief that biological life on Earth, or more broadly, the universe as a whole, was created by an intelligent agent (specified or unspecified) rather than being the result of undirected natural processes.
    • Of Pandas and People is not intended to be a balanced treatment by itself. We have given a favorable case for intelligent design and raised reasonable doubt about natural descent. But used together with your other text, it should help to balance the overall curriculum. 1993, Percival Davis, Dean H. Kenyon, “Introduction”, in Charles Thaxton, editor, Of Pandas and People, 2nd edition, Dallas, TX: Haughton Pub. Co., →ISBN, page ix:
    • Anaxagoras (500–428 B.C.) was the first of the Greeks "to attribute the adaptations of Nature to Intelligent Design, and was thus the founder of Teleology," an idea that has played a retarding function in the history of evolution. 1926, Horatio Hackett Newman, chapter 2, in Evolution, Genetics And Eugenics, page 13:
    • Intelligent design means that the various forms of life began abruptly through the agency of an intelligent creator with their distinctive features already intact—fish with fins and scales, birds with feathers, beaks, and wings, etc. 2006, Philip Clayton, Zachary R. Simpson, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, Oxford University Press,, →ISBN, page 735:

Deriveds

intelligent designer · intelligent designist

Hypernyms

creationism

Relateds

argument from design · IDM · IDist · Occam's razor · physicotheology · IDT · Ockham's razor · design proponent · IDer · neo-creo

Synonyms

IDism · ID · intelligent designism · neo-creationism

Translations (31)

eo inteligenta dezajno (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · cs inteligentní plán (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · ka გონიერი ქმნილება (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · ca disseny intel·ligent (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · ja インテリジェント・デザイン (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · ko 지적 설계 (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · ru разу́мный за́мысел (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · ar التَصْمِيم الذَكِيّ (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · yi אינטעליזשענט דעזיין (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · ro design inteligent (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · id intelligent design (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · tl matalinong disenyo (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · sv intelligent design (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · sh inteligentni dizajn (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · hu intelligens tervezés (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · lv apzināta radīšana (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · tr akıllı tasarım (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · de Intelligent Design (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · fi älykäs suunnittelu (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · ja 知能設計 (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · da intelligent design (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · cmn 智能設計 /智能设计 (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · pt design inteligente (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · es diseño inteligente (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · no intelligent design (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · it disegno intelligente (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · fr dessein intelligent (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · he תכנון תבוני (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · nl intelligent design (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · cmn 智慧設計 /智慧设计 (intelligent design / Intelligent Design) · pl teoria inteligentnego projektu (intelligent design / Intelligent Design)

wikipedia: Percival Davis · wikipedia: Of Pandas and People · wikipedia: Dean H. Kenyon · wikipedia: Edwards v. Aguillard