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At various times, leading proponents in the intelligent design movement have clearly expressed that they consider the Abrahamic God " Elohim " in his role as a creator God, to be the intelligent designer and denied that intelligent designer is God, depending on which audience they are addressing.

One example is William Dembski, who on his blog in response to the question " Is the designer responsible for biological complexity God?

" said " not necessarily " and " To ask who or what is the designer of a particular object is to ask for the immediate intelligent agent responsible for its design.

The point is that God is able to work through derived or surrogate intelligences, which can be anything from angels to organizing principles embedded in nature.

" Yet to the intelligent design movement's conservative Christian constituents Dembski has said " intelligent design should be understood as the evidence that God has placed in nature to show that the physical world is the product of intelligence and not simply the result of mindless material forces.

This evidence is available to all apart from the special revelation of God in salvation history as recounted in Scripture.

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Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

This gives intelligent design incredible traction as a tool for apologetics, opening up the God-question to individuals who think that science has buried God " and " Thus, in its relation to Christianity, intelligent design should be viewed as a ground-clearing operation that gets rid of the intellectual rubbish that for generations has kept Christianity from receiving serious consideration.

" Stephen C. Meyer, founder and leader of the intelligent design program of the Discovery Institute admitted on national television he believes that the designer is God.