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The '''intelligent Design''' (ID) argument is a critique of the [[naturalistic]] theory of [[evolution through natural selection]].

The '''intelligent Design''' (ID) argument is a critique of the theory of [[evolution through natural selection]] on the basis that life and other aspects of the physical universe are too complex to have come about through natural processes alone. In particular, the [[cell]] is too intricate to have come into being without having been designed (see [[irreducible complexity]]). Thus various features of the universe and of living things are best explained by a designer and not by undirected processes. <ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2348</ref><ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2834&program=CSC%20-%20Scientific%20Research%20and%20Scholarship%20-%20History%20and%20Philosophy%20of%20Science</ref><ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2571</ref><ref>http://www.arn.org/idfaq/What%20is%20intelligent%20design.htm</ref>

ID proponents point out that life and other aspects of the physical universe are too complex to have come about through natural processes alone. In particular, the [[cell]] is too intricate to have come into being without having been designed (see [[irreducible complexity]]). Thus various features of the universe and of living things are best explained by a designer and not by undirected processes. <ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2348</ref><ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2834&program=CSC%20-%20Scientific%20Research%20and%20Scholarship%20-%20History%20and%20Philosophy%20of%20Science</ref><ref>http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2571</ref><ref>http://www.arn.org/idfaq/What%20is%20intelligent%20design.htm</ref>

ID opponents typically insist that natural processes alone are sufficient to account for biological evolution, but the [[irreducible complexity]] of cellular structures such as the [[flagellum]] are too intricate to have come about through the agency of random natural causes. Indeed, [[natural selection]] itself would nip any changes in the bud before they could accumulate to create anything so complex as a "[[molecular machine]]".  

ID opponents typically insist that natural processes alone are sufficient to account for biological evolution, but the [[irreducible complexity]] of cellular structures such as the [[flagellum]] are too intricate to have come about through the agency of random natural causes. Indeed, [[natural selection]] itself would nip any changes in the bud before they could accumulate to create anything so complex as a "[[molecular machine]]".