Intelligent design

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intelligent design

The belief that biological life on Earth, or more broadly, the universe as a whole, was created by an intelligent agent (specified or unspecified) rather than being the result of undirected natural processes.

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I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution. Rick Perry

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. Neil deGrasse Tyson

First understand infinity then you will understand God and how evolution is intelligent design. E. Lee Spence

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection. Francis Collins

Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system. William A. Dembski

Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God. William A. Dembski

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