intelligent design
Etymology
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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- 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
- French: dessein intelligent
- German: Intelligent Design
- Italian: disegno intelligente
- Portuguese: design inteligente
- Russian: разумный замысел
- Spanish: diseño inteligente
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