intelligent design
Guided cosmic architecture
Intelligent design is the proposition that life is too complex to have arisen through natural processes alone, implying a purposeful creator.
Proponents present it as an alternative to evolutionary theory, though the scientific community rejects it as creationism repackaged in secular language.
The term gained prominence in debates over American public school curricula: The school board voted to teach intelligent design alongside evolution.
Species changing over generations
- DarwinismNatural selection theory
- scienceSystematic study through observation
- religionSystem of spiritual belief
- debateFormal argument on issues
secularism · atheism · theism · creationism · materialism · naturalism · skepticism · fundamentalism
One who produces something
- creationMaking something exist
- genesisPoint of creation
- originStarting point or source
- deityWorshipped supernatural being
divinity · divine plan · supernatural · omniscient · omnipotent · architect · mastermind · providence
Reason something exists
- AquinasScholastic philosopher-theologian surname
- AristotleGreek founder of formal logic
- fine-tuningSmall precise optimization adjustments
- goal-orientedFocused on objectives
cosmic purpose · first cause · unmoved mover · contingency · order · complexity
Hereditary code molecule
- informationKnowledge about something
- genetic codeCodon-to-amino-acid mapping rules
- protein foldingChain becoming functional structure
- biochemistryScience of living chemistry
origin of life · abiogenesis · Cambrian explosion · biomolecules · cytoplasm · organelles · metabolism
Germanic steward surname
- information theoryMathematics of encoding signals
- blood clottingPlatelets forming solid mass
evolution
Species changing over generations
- DarwinismNatural selection theory
- scienceSystematic study through observation
- religionSystem of spiritual belief
debate · secularism · atheism · theism · creationism · materialism · naturalism · skepticism · fundamentalism · dogma
creator
One who produces something
deity · divinity · divine plan · supernatural · omniscient · omnipotent · architect · mastermind · providence · sacred
purpose
Reason something exists
- AquinasScholastic philosopher-theologian surname
- AristotleGreek founder of formal logic
- fine-tuningSmall precise optimization adjustments
goal-oriented · cosmic purpose · first cause · unmoved mover · contingency · order · complexity
DNA
Hereditary code molecule
- informationKnowledge about something
- genetic codeCodon-to-amino-acid mapping rules
- protein foldingChain becoming functional structure
biochemistry · origin of life · abiogenesis · Cambrian explosion · biomolecules · cytoplasm · organelles · metabolism
Meyer
Germanic steward surname
- information theoryMathematics of encoding signals
- blood clottingPlatelets forming solid mass
- originsbeginning, birth, creation, source, roots
- denialismclimate denial, Holocaust denial, vaccine denial, denialism, anti-science
- Faith and Sciencefaith and reason, creationism, creation science, evolution debate, divine creation
- Modern ChristianityVatican II, ecumenism, evangelicalism, liberation theology, Billy Graham
- Modern Religionevangelicalism, fundamentalism, Pentecostalism, New Age, Scientology
- origins debatecreationism, evolution, creation science, Darwinism, young earth
intelligent designnatural selection
Differential reproductive success
Darwinian evolution · Darwinism · evolutionary theory · neo-Darwinism · survival of the fittest
intelligent designself-organization
Spontaneous internal structure emergence
intelligent designchance
Likelihood of occurrence
blind chance · purposelessness · accident · contingency · absurdism
design, intelligent, intelligence, intellectual, intellect, unintelligent, intelligible, intelligently, intelligibility