Intelligent design is a pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God. Proponents claim 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. The leading proponents of ID are associated with the Discovery Institute, a Christian, politically conservative think tank based in the United States. In the U.S, attempts to introduce creation science in public schools led to court rulings that it is religious in nature.
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Intelligent design is a pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God. Proponents claim 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. The leading proponents of ID are associated with the Discovery Institute, a Christian, politically conservative think tank based in the United States. In the U.S, attempts to introduce creation science in public schools led to court rulings that it is religious in nature and thus cannot be taught in public school classrooms. Intelligent design is also presented as science and shares other arguments with creation science but avoids literal Biblical references such as the Flood story from the Book of Genesis or using Bible verses to explain the Earth age. Critics of ID find a false dichotomy in the premise that evidence against evolution constitutes evidence for design. ID presents two main arguments against evolutionary explanations: irreducible complexity and specified complexity, asserting that certain biological and informational features of livingThings are too complex to be the result of natural selection, and that nature must have had an intelligent designer. In 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, which found that intelligent design was not science, that it cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents, and that the public school district’s promotion of it therefore violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United United States Constitution. In 1984, Barbara Forrest writes that the intelligent design movement began with the book The Mystery of Life’s Origin: Reassessing the Origin of Life’s Mystery.
The current co-written by creationist Charles Bllum, a chemist, and two other authors, Jon A. Blluell and Jon Thaxton, published by A. A. Foundation for Ethics and Ethics, is a book on the philosophy of intelligent design. In it, the authors argue that the concept of design is not a new idea, but that it has been around for a long time. The book also argues that the argument from design has been used in theology for centuries to explain complexity in nature. In 1802, William Paley’s Natural Theology presented examples of intricate purpose in organisms, but while Paley was open to deistic design through God-given laws, intelligent design seeks scientific confirmation of repeated miraculous interventions in the history of life. The first publication in its present use as an alternative term for creationism was in Of Pandas and People, a 1989 creationist textbook intended for high school biology classes. The term was substituted into drafts of the book, directly replacing references to creation science and creationism, after the 1987 Supreme Court’s Edwards v. Aguillard decision barred the teaching of creation science. In 1910, evolution was not a topic of major religious controversy in America, but in the 1920s, the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy in theology resulted in Fundamentalist Christian opposition to teaching evolution, and the origins of modern creationism. Teaching of evolution was effectively suspended in U. S. public schools until the 1960s.
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