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Guess who said that living organisms "give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose"?
'''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.
* Classical [[Darwinists]] 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]
== See also ==
== See also ==