What exactly do you consider "Intelligent Design"?

Answer 1

Intelligent Design is to Creationism as Vertically Challenged is to Short.

It's political correctness.

Answer 2

"Intelligent Design is the study of patterns in nature that are best explained as the result of intelligence" (Dr. William Dembski). That's it; it says nothing of who the creator is and how he/she/it/they did it. Intelligent Design encompasses every "creation" story.

We detect design all the time. If you find an arrowhead on a deserted island, you assume it was made by someone, even if you can’t see the designer. We can tell the difference between a message written in the sand and the results of the wind and waves on the sand. The carved heads of the presidents on Mt. Rushmore are clearly different from erosional features.

William Paley is famous for using this argument. In 1802, he came out with a treatise called Natural Theology. He began by arguing that if one were to discover a watch lying in the middle of nowhere and they were to examine that watch closely, the person would logically conclude that it was not an accident, but had purpose; it had a designer. He went on to argue that the overwhelming design in the universe is evidence of a Grand Designer.

Reliable methods for detecting design exist and are employed in forensics, archeology, and data fraud analysis. These methods can easily be employed to detect design in biological systems.

When being interviewed by Tavis Smiley, Dr. Stephen Meyer said, “There are developments in some technical fields, complexity and information sciences, that actually enable us to distinguish the results of intelligence as a cause from natural processes. When we run those modes of analysis on the information in DNA, they kick out the answer, ‘Yeah, this was intelligently designed’ . . . There is actually a science of design detection and when you analyze life through the filters of that science, it shows that life was intelligently designed.”

Answer 3

humans...have you ever considered the intricate ways in which you were created? how about the universe? have you ever researched the cosmic constants? there are somewhere between 50-150 cosmic constants. meaning that if one tiny tiny tiny thing were wrong with our universe we would all be dead. for example, the location of the sun and the earth, or the force of gravity. intelligent design is not something you have to research to understand....just look around in the world in which you live. i read the most amazing book last year...its called I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist. its by Norman Geisler and Frank Turek. if you have any doubts about a creater or God, read this book!!!! im not just some religious freak. im passionate about what i believe and have real evidence for what i know!

Answer 4

Intelligence is a product of slow evolution, so for a creator to have intelligence he would need to have come through an evolutionary process.

Answer 5

Not you because intelligent people know how to read a question properly and answer politely.

Answer 6

The self-parking Lexus.

Answer 7

All of God's creation. His creation is done with His intelligent design.

Answer 8

It's repackaged Creationism.

If you hold any kind of discussion with an IDer for a couple of mintues not only will you notice that there is absolutely ZERO science in their bullsh|t, but that it quickly devolves into a Scripture-babbling session.

Answer 9

A chair... the plain kitchen chair is very nicely intelligently designed.

Other than that, not much. :-)

Answer 10

Intelligent Design is a myth. George W. Bush is living proof of it!