I need info on intelligent design?

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What is intelligent design???

Answer 1

Intelligent Design is a position advanced by the Discovery Institute, a conservative christian think-tank in the US. Proponents of ID are anti-evolutionists. They seek to prove that it would not have been possible for complex lifeforms to have arisen through random mutation and natural selection. The implication is that some intelligent agency must have had a hand in the development of life in all its diversity, in an interventionist sense.

Compare this to the slightly subtler position of the Catholic church who hold that complex life did indeed develop through evolution but that evolution itself was the mechanism through which God's will was expressed (i.e. God controlled the dice throws of mutation and environmental events rather than tinkering directly with the DNA).

ID supporters are to Evolution as Global Warming Deniers are to Climate Science.

ID itself is sometimes referred to as 'Stealth Creationism' - Creationism is the belief that God created everything literally in accordance with the Genesis account. ID doesn't make this specific claim, it simply attacks evolutionary theory, but this is the thin end of the wedge. Read 'The Wedge Document' and you'll see what I mean:

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2437/wedge.html

Key to the ID hypothesis (It doesn't really qualify as a 'theory' despite it's adherent's claims) is the idea of irreducible complexity - that some organisms exhibit features that could not possibly have evolved in a series of small microevolutionary changes.

The problem with irreducible complexity is that if you put forward an example creature, and even one person can think of one possible evolutionary path by which that creature could have evolved, then you've disproven it as an example of irreducible complexity. To date, no-one has succeeded in producing an example of irreducible complexity that bears up to close scrutiny.

Here is an example - The bombardier beetle - and its debunking as proof of irreducible complexity:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/bombardier.html

Here is an example of an ID supporter at work. He starts by claiming that blood, blood vessels and hearts are all biological components that make no sense as isolated parts, and then asks how could they all have evolved together at the same time? This is an irreducible complexity argument. But when people post answers that show him that blood, hearts and blood vessels can exist independently in various creatures like annelids, insects or flatworms and don't all need to appear at the same time, he simply ignores the replies:

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ap5crCMBYH43AbDi4ZLgPTAgBgx.?qid=20060925094909AAmQ19w

Answer 2

Intelligent design is a term for designing something that makes sense in every way that you look at it. Say you bought a car, and the underhood is so full of crap you can't find the spark plugs. That is not intelligent design, that is compact design. Now lets say that the mechanic that has to work on that same car needs to by tools for just that make and model. That is proprietary design. Now make the same car that anyone with little knowledge can do simple maintenance without special tools or a book, and that becomes intelligent design. Ford is a good example of unintelligent design. If you look at it in a manufacturing perspective, lets say you have to run multiple pipes crossing the whole building. Intelligent design would depict they should be placed so that they are easy to access, hard to trip over or bump into, and are set at a true 90 degrees so that each can also be easily identified as to its contents and origin. Hope this helps you get that A+ on your homework.

Answer 3

The answer to this is simple. There is no intelligent design apart from the things that man has designed for himself like cars, planes , etc. There is absolutely no evidence at all of any sort for intelligent desin in nature.
Luckily we have random fluctuations instead!

Answer 4

Appeals to the concept of intelligent design involve the claim that aspects of the world show signs of having been designed by an intelligent being rather than having developed naturally.

Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design

It might help a little! Good luck!!!

Answer 5

Evolution is intelligent design.

Some think blonds are intelligent design without intelligence

Answer 6

Intelligent design is repackaged creationism. It asserts that some elements of biological systems are too complex to have developed on their own, hence there must have been some "intelligence", i.e. a "designer" involved.

Enjoy your reading!

Answer 7

I think Most grocery stores are intelligent design. Meat and veggies on diff sides of the store. Keeps the Carnivores and herbivores seperated and no one loses an arm. Beer is always in the middle so no matter where you are in the styore you can always rush to the liqour isle. THAT is intelligent design :)

Answer 8

It is a theory that humans and the world and everything in it are like this because it has all been designed by God.

They other theory is called evolution, coupled with survival of the fitest.

Answer 9

Intelligent design means that there was a creator behind creation, not just a haphazard, by chance occurrence. As you delve deeper into science and the intricacies of life and matter you see there is intelligent patterning, an order, nothing is haphazard.

Answer 10

All the answers are in "The Blind Watchmaker" by Richard Dawkins, published in about 1986. ID is just creationism or "creation science" in a different silly hat. It is the latest attempt to slip fundamentalist dogma into school science classes. It was dismissed by in court case in a place called Dover recently. Basically, it's twaddle.