intelligent design
Etymology

Became a standard and widely promoted term in the 1987 draft of Of Pandas and People by Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon, as a repackaging of creationism after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against its teaching in Edwards v. Aguillard (1987).

Proper noun
  1. 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.
    Synonyms: ID, IDism, intelligent designism, neo-creationism
Translations
  • French: dessein intelligent
  • German: Intelligent Design
  • Italian: disegno intelligente
  • Portuguese: design inteligente
  • Russian: разумный замысел
  • Spanish: diseño inteligente



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