English Explanatory Dictionary

intelligent design

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

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).

Synonyms

ID IDism intelligent designism neo-creationism

Related words

IDer IDist IDM IDT argument from design design proponent neo-creo Occam's razor Ockham's razor physicotheology

Derived words

intelligent designer intelligent designist
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