The principal proponents of "Intelligent Design", such as the creationist Discovery Institute, claim that Intelligent Design is not a religious argument, and they are therefore neutral as to who the Designer actually is. In practice, virtually all proponents of this hypothesis are Christians. They therefore believe in the Abrahamic God, and seek to have people believe that Intelligent Design proves his existence.
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It is not forbidden by Catholicism to believe in evolution. The reason many people who believe in a god do not believe in evolution is that evolution's adversary, Intelligent Design, makes far more sense to one who believes in God that anyone who does not, although you can believe in intelligent design and not believe in God.
Many people believe that creationism is a one word synonym for intelligent design. Though this is not true, I hope it may be the answer you are looking for.
Intelligent design's popularity is derived from it's apparent ability for people to reconcile science with their inherent religious beliefs. People would much rather choose to still believe in their God and use intelligent design to explain nature (no mater how flawed, and unscientific it is) rather than actually understand the truth of evolution.
True. Many of the most intelligent people, including many scientists do not believe in God.
Centre for Intelligent Design was created in 2010.
The Intelligent Design Of... was created on 2006-07-25.
Intelligent Design - book - was created in 1999-10.
Intelligent design is an ideology based on skepticism of proven facts and scientific inquiry. It is based on the idea that life could only have been started by a "Creator" without providing any evidence to back up that claim.
In a religious context, Intelligent Design would normally be capitalised. On the other hand if I told an engineer that his new invention is an intelligent design, this usage would not be capitalised.
According to their Watchtower web site:Evolutionary theory and the teachings of Christ are incompatible.So they absolutely reject Evolution as defined by the theory that life arose from inanimate chemicals, formed into self-replicating cells, and slowly developed into more and more complex creatures, with man being the most intelligent of its productions.As far as intelligent design is concerned, they also suggest that it does not go far enough. Intelligent Design only theorizes that life, or the universe, cannot have arisen by chance and was designed and created by some intelligent entity. Jehovah's Witnesses state unequivocally that specifically God created everything, not just some vague "intelligent entity." In that respect, their beliefs are compatible with intelligent design but intelligent design does not go far enough.
I would believe well behaved because thought you can be a very intelligent person you will not be recognized for it if you are not well behaved. If you are well behaved that may lead most people to believe you are some-what intelligent and respect you for that instead of how they would treat a intelligent disrespectful person.
The cast of Intelligent Design - 2008 includes: Kyra Sullivan as Main