intelligent design

== English == === 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). === Pronunciation === === Noun === intelligent design (uncountable) 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. Synonyms: ID, IDism, intelligent designism, neo-creationism ==== Hypernyms ==== creationism ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === argument from design design proponent, neo-creo Occam's razor, Ockham's razor physicotheology