INTELLIGENT DESIGN EVIDENCE
About Intelligent Design
About Intelligent Design
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| The central claim of Intelligent Design theory is that design in nature is scientifically detectable. The detectability of design in man-made objects is straightforward, intuitive, and non-controversial. With respect to the origin and development of cosmological and biological systems, Intelligent Design theory holds that the same principles of design detection provide a logical inference of design in nature. That is, the material evidence provides a reasonable basis from which to infer design, and such an inference supports a legitimate scientific hypothesis of intelligent design. As such, Intelligent Design theory is a scientific disagreement with the core claim of naturalistic evolutionary theories, particularly Darwinism,[1] that the design exhibited in our universe is merely apparent design, i.e., unintelligent design caused by unguided, purposeless, natural forces of physics and chemistry alone.[2] Footnotes: [1] Darwinian Evolution: A materialistic theory of the history of the diversification of organisms from common ancestors through a process of descent with modification. The theory postulates that evolutionary change is the result of material causes [i.e., unintelligent causes due to forces and energy in nature], driven primarily by random variation and natural selection. See, "Thirty-eight Nobel Laureates, Nobel Laureates Initiative, (The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, September 9, 2005), stressing to Kansas State Board of Education: “[E]volution is understood to be the result of an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection.” [2] As used on this website, "naturalism" and "naturalistic" refer to the philosophical doctrine that nature, i.e., matter alone, is the whole of reality, and that intelligent causation for nature itself does not qualify as a scientific explanation. Naturalism, as such, is a philosophical position akin to materialism, which, when dictating the methods of science is referred to as methodological naturalism. |
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