Intelligent design

Intelligent design is the idea that life, or the universe, cannot have arisen by chance and was designed and created by some intelligent entity. It believes that the universe is so complex that it must have been designed by a higher intelligent being.^[1] This theory is that life did not evolve by natural selection.

Intelligent design was developed by a group of American creationists to get around legal judgements like Edwards v. Aguillard, which said that creationism could not be taught in schools because of the First Amendment.^{[2][n 1][3]} The first use of the term in this form was in the creationist textbook Of Pandas and People, published in 1989.^[4][5]

1. ↑ Mayled, Jon (2010). GCSE Religious Studies: Philosophy and Applied Ethics for OCR B: Revision Guide. Hodder Education. p. 35. ISBN 9781444110715.
2. ↑ Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, 04 cv 2688 (December 20, 2005). , Context pg. 32 ff, citing Edwards v. Aguillard, 482 U.S. 578 (1987).
3. ↑ Forrest, Barbara (May 2007). "Understanding the Intelligent Design Creationist Movement: Its True Nature and Goals" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Center for Inquiry, Office of Public Policy. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-19. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
4. ↑ Eugenie C. Scott; Nicholas J. Matzke (May 15, 2007). "Biological design in science classrooms". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (Suppl 1). United States National Academy of Sciences: 8669–8676. doi:10.1073/pnas.0701505104. PMC 1876445. PMID 17494747.
5. ↑ Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, 04 cv 2688 (December 20, 2005). , pp. 31–33.