• An intelligent designer, also referred to as an intelligent agent, is the pseudoscientific hypothetical willed and self-aware entity that the intelligent...
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  • exists, there must have been a designer; nature is complex and therefore nature must have had an intelligent designer." Thomas Aquinas presented it in...
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  • such as "design by an intelligent designer", and after 1987 this was rebranded as "intelligent design", promoted by the intelligent design movement which...
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  • Watchmaker analogy (category Intelligent design)
    argue for the concept of intelligent design. The analogy states that a design implies a designer, by an intelligent designer, i.e. a creator deity. The...
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    William A. Dembski (category Intelligent design advocates)
    unspecified processes by an intelligent but unidentified designer. The book asserted that there was a logical need for such a designer because of the appearance...
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    that of intelligent design, but Ross argues that the evidence points to Jesus Christ as the designer, instead of an undefined intelligent designer. Hugh...
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  • such as "design by an intelligent designer", and after 1987 this was rebranded as "intelligent design", promoted by the intelligent design movement which...
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    Michael Behe (category Intelligent design advocates)
    explanation for such complex structures was that they were created by an "intelligent designer". Irreducible complexity has been rejected by the scientific community...
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  • The intelligent design movement is a neo-creationist religious campaign for broad social, academic and political change to promote and support the pseudoscientific...
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    Aristotle rejects Plato's assumption that the universe was created by an intelligent designer. For Aristotle, natural ends are produced by "natures" (principles...
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  • the anthropic principle by Carter as a proof of an intelligent designer. Opponents of intelligent design are not limited to those who hypothesize that...
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  • Nintendo R&D1 team. Because of Narihiro's success, Intelligent Systems began to hire graphic designers, programmers, and musicians to extend the company...
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    timeline of intelligent design outlines the major events in the development of intelligent design as presented and promoted by the intelligent design movement...
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  • Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers is a book written by Claude Vorilhon (Raël), the founder of the Raëlian movement. The book was originally...
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  • Irreducible complexity (category Intelligent design)
    of a designer. Researchers applying these algorithms automatically produce human-competitive designs—but no human designer is required. Intelligent design...
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    position, and stated that he now believed in the existence of an intelligent designer of the universe, shocking colleagues and fellow atheists. In order...
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    Flying Spaghetti Monster (category Intelligent design parodies)
    Henderson According to Henderson, since the intelligent design movement uses ambiguous references to a designer, any conceivable entity may fulfill that...
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  • Fine-tuned universe (category Intelligent design)
    previous intelligent entities may have generated our universe. This idea leads to the possibility that the extra-universal designer/designers are themselves...
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    ed. (1994). The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for An Intelligent Designer. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. ISBN 9780830816989. OCLC 29478326...
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    2005 saying that "Intelligent design isn't science even though it pretends to be. If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught...
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    human-oriented nature in addition to the intelligent personality and "allergy-friendly" coat of a Poodle. In the 1990s, designer dog breeders in Australia and the...
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  • Michael Behe concedes "You can't prove intelligent design by experiment". The inference that an intelligent designer created life on Earth, which advocate...
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    Christianity and science Brahman Vishvakarma Creation myth Deism Intelligent designer Androgyny Baphometh William K. Bissey (Spring 1997). "G.A.O.T.U."...
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  • Of Pandas and People (category Intelligent design books)
    etc". The book makes no explicit reference to the identity of the intelligent designer implied in the "blueprint" metaphor. In 1989 the National Center...
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    successful form of irrationalism. The main form of neo-creationism is intelligent design. A second form, abrupt appearance theory, which claims that the...
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    Following political controversy, creation science was reformulated as intelligent design and neo-creationism. Mainline Protestants and the Catholic Church...
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  • a God based on rational thought Existence – State of being real Intelligent designer – In neo-creationism, the creator of life Tzimtzum – Lurianic Kabbalah...
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  • American theologian and advocate of the pseudoscientific argument of intelligent design. Wells joined the Unification Church in 1974, and subsequently...
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  • Intelligent dance music (IDM) is a style of electronic music originating in the early 1990s, defined by idiosyncratic experimentation rather than specific...
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  • unobserved universes plays the same logical role as the scenario of an intelligent designer. Each provides an untestable hypothesis that, if true, makes something...
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