Argument intended to demonstrate that living organisms were created in more or less their present forms by an "intelligent designer." Intelligent design was formulated in the 1990s, primarily in the United States, as an explicit refutation of the Darwinian theory of biological evolution. Building on a version of the argument from design for the existence of God, proponents of intelligent design observed that the functional parts and systems of living organisms are "irreducibly complex" in the sense that none of their component parts can be removed without causing the whole system to cease functioning. From this premise they inferred that no such system could have come about through the gradual alteration of functioning precursor systems by means of random mutation and natural selection, as the standard evolutionary account maintains; therefore, living organisms must have been created all at once by an intelligent designer. Proponents of intelligent design generally avoided identifying the designer with the God of Christianity or other monotheistic religions, in part because they wished the doctrine to be taught as a legitimate scientific alternative to evolution in public schools in the United States, where the government is constitutionally prohibited from promoting religion. Critics of intelligent design argued that it rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of natural selection, that it ignores the existence of precursor systems in the evolutionary history of numerous organisms, and that it is ultimately untestable and therefore not scientific.
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ACCORDING TO an another explanation...
(pedia source perhaps, however a little reformed for classwork)
What is It about?
Intelligent design is the assertion that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."
It is a modern form of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, modified to avoid specifying the nature or identity of the designer.
Its primary proponents, all of whom are associated with the Discovery Institute, believe the designer to be God.
Advocates of intelligent design claim it is a scientific theory, and seek to fundamentally redefine science to accept supernatural explanations.
The unequivocal consensus in the scientific community is that intelligent design is not science.
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has stated that "intelligent design, and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life" are not science because they cannot be tested by experiment, do not generate any predictions, and propose no new hypotheses of their own.
The National Science Teachers Association, an organization of American science teachers and the largest organization of science teachers in the world, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have termed it pseudoscience.
Others have concurred, and some have called it junk science.
VERY IMPORTANT.......
"Intelligent design" originated in response to the 1987 United States Supreme Court ruling involving separation of church and state.
Its first significant published use was in Of Pandas and People, a 1989 textbook intended for high-school biology classes. Several additional books on "intelligent design" were published in the 1990s. By 1995, intelligent design proponents had begun clustering around the Discovery Institute and more publicly advocating the inclusion of intelligent design in public school curricula.
With the Discovery Institute and its Center for Science and Culture serving a central role in planning and funding, the "intelligent design movement" grew increasingly visible in the late 1990s and early 2000s, culminating in the 2005 "Dover trial" challenging the intended use of intelligent design in public school science classes.
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CAN YOU LINK TO THESE sites given beneath and consult a little with their details?
1.Intelligent Design - Wikipedia
... design look for evidence of what they term "signs of intelligence" ... false dichotomy, where either evolution or design is the proper explanation, and ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design
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I HAVE BEEN LUCKY TO POSSESS this book...worth reading!!!
Title: Artificial Intelligence. Design by Evolution ...
2. Design by Evolution
Design by Evolution - Evolution is Nature's design process. ... Home / Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence. Design by Evolution ...
http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/book/978-3-540-74109-1
3. Evolution: intelligence, design, neo-Darwinian randomness: just ...
Evolution: intelligence, design, neo-darwinin randomness: just teach the facts ... likelihood of this happening by chance or by design and we will move a long way ...
http://simpletoremember.com/vitals/evolution-intelligence-design-neo-darwi...
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You Tube... is fantastic...... HERE IS something interesting for you!!!!
YouTube - Polyworld: Using Evolution to Design Artificial Intelligence
JUST CLICK & ENJOY with sound and vision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m97_kL4ox0