Intelligent Design

Intelligent Design is the concept that some things—especially some life forms or parts of life forms—must have been assembled (at least for the first time) by the direct action of a non-natural agent. Proponents of Intelligent Design argue that there is empirical evidence that the universe's system of natural capabilities for forming things is inadequate for assembling certain information-rich biological structures. And if the system of natural capabilities is inadequate, then these biological structures must have been assembled by the action of some non-natural agent, usually taken to be divine.

See also CREATION; CREATIONISM; CREATION SCIENCE; DESIGN; EVOLUTION; SCOPES TRIAL.

HOWARD J. VAN TILL