What is Intelligent Design?

Question

I've heard it before but I actually have no idea what it is! What is it?

Answer 1

Intelligent design can be seen in things all around us. e.g the spoon we eat with. We all obviosly know that somebody worked on it for sometime and made it isn't it and can't have come to existance by chance becuase there is a design in it. Or the mobile phone someone has to get the right materials in the right place in the right amount to make all its parts and then put them together which cannot result if some chemical reactions took place in a mixture of silicon and hydrocarbons e.t.c. Becuase it requires an design a plan to be manufactured, if any thing goes wrong with any of the parts in this device it will not be able to work properly any more. It is a concept developed by using common sense by normal people who say that if you see a design a plan any where it has to be the result of some conciouse creator/thinker behind it. Obviously if I tell you that the car you drive came into existance after an explosion in a warehouse of car spare parts, after the explosion all the spare parts came into the right order all by chance; you really would not believe me. The same can be said about million of protiens comming into the right order to make the perfect DNA which started life on earth (get my point?). As far as this first living organism is concerned, to start the life we also need to have enzymes which carry out the instructions of the DNA (The Encyclopedia of How the organism develops) and make new cells. But the information for these enzymes is also in the DNA (just any enzyme will not do). So we must have the right DNA with the right enzymes by chance (according to theory of evolution) to make the first living cell. However the enzymes are so sensitive that they only work correctly in the environment found inside the cell (the biologists have come to know this). SO it must have happened that the whole cell (Which has parts more like a city with power plant [Mitochondria] and the Workers [Enzymes] and the HQ [DNA]) must have come about by chance; which ofcourse is against common sense. To get food info you may download tho books: Miracle in the DNA [http://www.harunyahya.net/V2/Lang/en/Pg/WorkDetail/Number/161]. And Miracle in the Cell [http://www.harunyahya.net/V2/Lang/en/Pg/WorkDetail/Number/4022]. Download the PDF or the DOC format, which ever you like. I recomend these books to all the people. Yes one final thing, if you say the intelligent design for our creation has been brought by aliens. They created us, then tell me who created the aliens? We all know that the universe has a start, The Big Bang theory, and they obviously were there then to see it right???

Answer 2

Intelligent design means just that. It means that it took great power and intelligence to create/design the world. It means that the world, its vast differences, the thousands of life forms, could not have just come about by chance like evolution and the big bang theory teaches. Things are way too complex for something like that to have happened. Someone has said that the big bang theory is like believing thousands of jet parts could be thrown in the air and down would come a completely assembled 747. Something like that could never happen but that is about as much sense the big bang theory makes in the opinion of many people. No designer, no knowledge assembled it. It just happened by chance, is about what those opposing creation by God/intelligent design believe. The Bible teaches that God created the world. God has the power, knowledge, and ability to do such a thing. God is the intelligent design--er.

Answer 3

So many people these days are confusing biblical creationism with intelligent design. "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, even aliens seeding life on this planet.

William Paley is famous for using the design 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.

Now, is this a valid argument? Well, 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.

The thing is, 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.”

And for those who put so much faith in peer-review, check this out: http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2640&program=CSC%20-%20Scientific%20Research%20and%20Scholarship%20-%20Science

The four main areas the ID movement focuses on: Information Theory, Irreducible Complexity, The Anthropic Principle, and The Design Inference.

What about teaching it in school? I'm sorry, but I have to agree with George W. Bush: "Both sides ought to be properly taught . . . so people can understand what the debate is about . . . Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought . . . You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes.”

Good science teaching should include controversies. Most Christians I know don't want biblical creationism taught in science classes. What we want is for molecules-to-man evolution to be taught with all its warts (they are not even allowed to present evidence that would put evolution in a poor light). And we want intelligent design to at least to be presented. Unlike leprechauns and unicorns, etc., a significant percentage of the population believes in ID.

Answer 4

It's the belief that we were created by some one or thing that is more intelligent.
It is a new way of saying God.
Actually I think that it should work if the world in general picks up on it, because it is a non religious way of saying we were created.
Intelligent design can be any God or even UFOs.

Answer 5

It is another name for Creationism. Some religious people want to teach public school children that creationism is an alternate theory to evolution, but that is prohibited by the Constitution. So they renamed creationism "Intelligent Design" in an attempt to pass it off as not religion, and therefore, legal to teach in schools.

Answer 6

It is the theory behind the belief in creationism. Creationists believe that the dynamics of the universe could not exist without some intelligent thought process involved in its existence.

Answer 7

intelegent design says humans are too perfect(HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahaha... cough. cough... ahem)

to have been evolved from "nothing" or mokeys or whatever misconception about evolution you want to put in there.

it's a false observation that says that an intellgent sentient MUST be behind the blueprint of life because of how great we are,


basically we are crediting an intellegent creator for our existence for the purpose of kissing our own asses with how awesome we are.

you know, with our obesity and cancer and susceptibility to the common cold obviously something had to think up the masterpiece that is the humanoid.

Answer 8

To prepare a bowl of rice, you start by boiling it until you think it is ready to eat; so you have by intelligence designed the rice to taste the way you want it to taste. The argument between evolutionists and interventionists is that the evolutionists wants you to believe the rice decides how to taste good when boiled while the interventionists says it tastes the way it does because you designed it to taste the way it does.

Answer 9

The universe being created by God and rather through chance.
that God said "let there be" and there was, rather than what evolution teaches that "at first there was nothing and then it exploded and bam! here we are!"

more information:
http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/
http://www.answersingenesis.org/

and contrary to what people may believe, those who accept intelligent design are actually real scientists who have Ph.Ds

Answer 10

I think it's something ,with some intelligence that designs something