"Intelligent design (ID) is the concept 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. Its leading proponents, all of whom are affiliated with the Discovery Institute, say that intelligent design is a scientific theory that stands on equal footing with, or is superior to, current scientific theories regarding the evolution and origin of life"
(excrept from Wikipedia).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design
It's a fairly descriptive article, and quite objective as well. I hope it helps.
2006-08-28 20:17:15
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answered by mortisia2121 5
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Theory might not be the best choice of words to describe this, but it would be any of several sets of beliefs that the universe and our world were created by a deity or intelligent designer.
It is usually applied to the creation story as it appears in Genesis, but can also apply to several other creation stories central to other religions in which a god or family of gods built the world.
Some take what we know of the scientific origins of the universe (which isn't that much, really) and say it could not have happened by accident, that the creation must have been guided by an intelligent mind and hand. This is as close as you can come to a theory.
This is usually applied when we try to take the Genesis creation story and mesh it with the Big Bang or Evolution. In other words, the Big Bang occurred, but at the direction of God. Ditto evolution.
Hope this helps and don't worry about the award.
2006-08-29 03:20:40
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answered by Warren D 7
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ID doesn't even vaguely qualify as a theory. A theory is a hyposthisis that has been tested and passed, and has considerable strong evidence behind it. ID is Creationism trying to wear an ill-fitting lab coat. It makes no testable claims, makes no predictions about what we will find when we look, and is utterly unverifiable. The concept of "irreducable complexity" is held up as its defining feature, never mind that it has been publicly debunked many times.
ID is a religiously based assertion with no solid basis beyond wishing it so. It comes from the presupposition that there is a designer and that the designer is somehow "self-evident" without defining (in terms narrow enought to be useful) just what that evidence is.
2006-08-29 03:46:42
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answered by Scott M 7
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The theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection. ID is thus a scientific disagreement with the core claim of evolutionary theory that the apparent design of living systems is an illusion.
In a broader sense, Intelligent Design is simply the science of design detection -- how to recognize patterns arranged by an intelligent cause for a purpose. Design detection is used in a number of scientific fields, including anthropology, forensic sciences that seek to explain the cause of events such as a death or fire, cryptanalysis and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). An inference that certain biological information may be the product of an intelligent cause can be tested or evaluated in the same manner as scientists daily test for design in other sciences.
ID is controversial because of the implications of its evidence, rather than the significant weight of its evidence. ID proponents believe science should be conducted objectively, without regard to the implications of its findings. This is particularly necessary in origins science because of its historical (and thus very subjective) nature, and because it is a science that unavoidably impacts religion.
2006-08-29 03:18:07
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answered by Anonymous
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Intelligent Design is the "theory" that life is so complex that it must have been created by an intelligent designer.(If he's so intelligent why did he make creationists?!) Of course this is only a repackeged version of the "watch on the hearth" idea and creationism and,when you strip away their pseudoscience, you find it is nothing more than a "fullblown intellectual surrender strategy."
2006-08-31 10:53:16
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answered by elitetrooper459 3
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William A. Dembski
For the scientific community intelligent design represents creationism's latest grasp at scientific legitimacy. Accordingly, intelligent design is viewed as yet another ill-conceived attempt by creationists to straightjacket science within a religious ideology. But in fact intelligent design can be formulated as a scientific theory having empirical consequences and devoid of religious commitments. Intelligent design can be unpacked as a theory of information. Within such a theory, information becomes a reliable indicator of design as well as a proper object for scientific investigation. In my paper I shall (1) show how information can be reliably detected and measured, and (2) formulate a conservation law that governs the origin and flow of information. My broad conclusion is that information is not reducible to natural causes, and that the origin of information is best sought in intelligent causes. Intelligent design thereby becomes a theory for detecting and measuring information, explaining its origin, and tracing its flow.
2006-08-29 03:16:25
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answered by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6
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The intelligent design theory is another way of explaining the creation of the universe and everything contained therein.
A politically correct way (according to certain Republicans and fundamentalists) to give God credit for creating everything without mentioning God.
There is another way to explain the IDT.
Certain scientists have become convinced that everything we know could not have just been a result of 'The Big Bang Theory'; therefore, instead of just saying 'It' happened they appear willing to believe that there had to be ID behind creation without giving any credit to a Supreme Being.
In other words - well - BS
2006-08-29 03:24:47
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answered by Temple 5
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try intelligentdesignnetwork.org
also thegoldenfrog.com
It's a theory that something of great power, energy started the universe. They can't say 'God' at all in some universities so a professor came up with this title. It's suppose to make people that don't believe God or a god exists but that maybe 'something' does that made this all.
2006-08-29 03:27:22
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answered by Anonymous
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Basically nothing became something and created order out of the chaos . then created souls from its own body and then created the Physical universe and all that lived in it.these had no souls and were subject to the laws of evolution until God let the souls into the physical universe to see what IT had made . some entered into the bodies and enjoyed the sensations so much hat they forgot where they came from and thus started a different type of evolution.
2006-08-29 03:27:58
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answered by Anonymous
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it's a pseudoscientific idea that tries unsuccessfully to merge scientific facts with biblical ideas with the hope of proving god's existence through science. it's just a newer form of creationism that some brickheaded religious wackos are trying to get schools to "teach".
2006-08-29 03:23:24
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answered by Anonymous
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