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The '''intelligent Design''' (ID) argument is a critique of the [[naturalistic]] theory of unguided [[biological evolution]] (see [[evolution through natural selection]]).
The '''intelligent Design''' (ID) argument is a critique of the [[naturalistic]] theory of unguided [[biological evolution]] (see [[evolution through natural selection]]).
Intelligent design argues 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>
Design theory leaves the identity of the Intelligent Designer open, although design opponents insist that it could only be God.
Design theory leaves the identity of the Intelligent Designer open, although design opponents insist that it could only be God.