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'''Design''' is the purposefully made enhancement of an animate object or [[artifact]] by a planned process.  In the context of the [[evolution]] vs. [[creation]] controversy, "design" often refers to [[intelligent design]], the [[scientific theory]] that life carries traits which could not have arisen absent purposeful direction towards a goal.

'''Design''' is the purposefully made enhancement of an animate object or [[artifact]] by a planned process.  In the context of the [[evolution]] vs. [[creation]] controversy, "design" often refers to [[intelligent design]], the [[scientific theory]] that life carries traits which could not have arisen absent purposeful direction towards a goal.

:''See also [[List of Intelligent Design Theorists]]''

*[[Darwinism|Evolutionary biologists]] such as Francisco Ayala and [[Richard Dawkins]] assert much more. Dawkins, for example, acknowledges that living organisms "give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose." But, he argues that this appearance of design is completely misleading because undirected Darwinian processes — random mutations and natural selection — can produce the features of living systems that look designed. In Ayala's words, natural selection produces "design without a designer." [http://www.discovery.org/a/4522]

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* [[Charles Darwin]] said his [[theory of evolution]] had disproved design in nature. He declared that [[natural causes]] could explain life. Although the world looked designed, he said, it actually was produced by the blind action of the environment on [[random variations]] in [[organisms]]. [http://www.beliefnet.com/story/172/story_17214_1.html]

 

 

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