Intelligent design ( ID ) is a form of creationism promulgated by the Discovery Institute.

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Intelligent design advocates argue that irreducibly complex systems must have been deliberately engineered by some form of intelligence.

Intelligent design advocates claim that natural selection could not create from scratch those systems for which science is currently unable to find a viable evolutionary pathway of successive, slight modifications, because the selectable function is only present when all parts are assembled.

Intelligent design proponents attribute to an intelligent designer those biological structures they believe are irreducibly complex and whereof they say a natural explanation is insufficient to account for them.

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He devoted considerable time to fighting against creationism ( and the related constructs Creation science and Intelligent design ).

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Intelligent design advocate Michael Behe proposed a development of Paley's watch analogy in which he argued in favour of intelligent design.

In November 2007 Scott discussed the NCSE's exploration of intelligent design on the NOVA documentary Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial, which documented Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.

He is the author of a number of books about intelligent design, including The Design Inference ( 1998 ), Intelligent Design: The Bridge between Science and Theology ( 1999 ), The Design Revolution ( 2004 ), The End of Christianity ( 2009 ), and Intelligent Design Uncensored ( 2010 ).

Intelligent design — and Dembski's concept of specified complexity — are seen by the scientific community as a form of conservative Christian creationism, attempting to portray itself as science.

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Mims is an advocate for Intelligent design and serves as a Fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design and the Discovery Institute.

The company is known as an industry advocate, and has focused in recent years on advancing postal reform, the USPS Intelligent Mail barcode, transpromo and environmental sustainability.

Intelligent design proponent William Dembski questions the first premise of the argument, maintaining a distinction between " intelligent design " and optimal design.

In 1999, William Dembski was invited by Baylor University president Robert B. Sloan to form the Michael Polanyi Center, described by Dembski as " the first Intelligent Design think tank at a research university ".

Intelligent Machines Research Corporation ( IMR ) was founded by David H. Shepard and William Lawless, Jr. in 1952 to commercialize the work Shepard had done with the help of Harvey Cook in building " Gismo ", a machine later called the " Analyzing Reader ".

Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology is a 1999 book by William A. Dembski in which he presents an argument in support of intelligent design.

Analysis of William A. Dembski's Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology, and Phillip Johnson's The Wedge of Truth: Splitting the Foundations of Naturalism

Intelligent Design proponent William A. Dembski has criticized its assumption that the intermittent stages of such a progression will be selected by evolutionary principles, and asserts that many genes that are useful in tandem would not have arisen independently.

The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design is a book written by William A. Dembski in 2004 which supports intelligent design, and the idea that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not a naturalistic process such as natural selection.

Mark Perakh's review, How William Dembski Is Dodging Questions About Intelligent Design

* The Promise of Nylon 6: A Case Study in Intelligent Product Design by William McDonough & Michael Braungart

In 2002, he presented at the " Evolution and Intelligent Design " session of the CSICOP 4th World Skeptics conference in Burbank, California, along with Massimo Pigliucci, Kenneth Miller, Paul Nelson, and William A. Dembski.

Intelligent design supporters and promoters Phillip E. Johnson, Michael Behe, Stephen C. Meyer and William A. Dembski also appear in the documentary.

* Intelligent Design Coming Clean an essay by Dembski, November 17, 2000.

Highlighting these mutually exclusive claims about the designer, Dembski, despite having said that the intelligent designer or designers could be any god or gods, or even space aliens, has also said that " 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 " and that " Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

Turing gave a succinct definition of the experiment in his 1948 essay, " Intelligent Machinery ".

His brain child IDA ( Intelligent Distribution Agent ) is a software implementation of GWT, which makes it functionally conscious by definition.

In 1989, the Foundation for Thought and Ethics published Of Pandas and People by Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon, editor Charles Thaxton, with the definition that " Intelligent design means that various forms of life began abruptly through an intelligent agency, with their distinctive features already intact.

The Festival was an influential advocate of the concept of " Good Design ", a rational approach to product design in accordance with the principles of the Modern Movement.

Bob Leckie of the RCAF was a strong advocate for years for an industry to design and build aircraft in Canada yet the Department of National Defense, according to Avro's Roy Dobson, gave " a cold reception " to doing more than building under licence.

He became a leading advocate of Modernist design: first with an influential 1925 magazine supplement ; then a 1927 personal exhibition ; then with his most noted work Die neue Typographie.

In today's society distinct from Burt's the link between IQ and education has weakened, but the idea of educated and intelligent has become synonymous, interchangeable ; reinforced by verbalizers being better able to internalize information, advocate systems and design jobs that monetarily reward strengths, a cycle that is self-perpetuating.

Neal Adams ( born June 15, 1941 ) is an American comic book and commercial artist known for helping to create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Superman, Batman, and Green Arrow ; as the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates ; and as a creators-rights advocate who helped secure a pension and recognition for Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

Michael J. Behe ( ; born January 18, 1952 ) is an American biochemist, author, and intelligent design advocate.

The architecture and design critic, Peter Reyner Banham, known for often controversial views on technology and industrialisation, was a keen advocate and user of the original Moulton.

He has been a leading advocate for design and technology innovation focused on the total customer experience and the application of operations research.

He is an outspoken advocate of better education of the general computing population about floating-point issues, and regularly denounces decisions in the design of computers and programming languages that may impair good floating-point computations.

While his apathy towards the recent " green " movement is considered polarizing or " out-of-touch ", this architect-artist ( with drawings held by major collections ) was also an early advocate of computer aided design.

There is broad scientific consensus that HIV is the cause of AIDS, but some individuals reject this consensus, including biologist Peter Duesberg, biochemist David Rasnick, journalist / activist Celia Farber, conservative writer Tom Bethell, and intelligent design advocate Phillip E. Johnson.

Statisticians in response surface methodology ( RSM ) advocate the " sequential assembly " of designs: In the RSM approach, a screening design is followed by a " follow-up design " that resolves only the confounded interactions judged worth resolution.

Darwin held Gray in high esteem: he dedicated his book Forms of Flowers ( 1877 ) to Gray and he wrote in 1881 " there is hardly any one in the world whose approbation I value more highly than I do yours " Gray, considered by Darwin to be his friend and " best advocate ", also attempted to convince Darwin in these letters that design was inherent in all forms of life, and to return to his faith.

The Belt Parkway was proposed by builder and highway advocate Robert Moses in 1930 to provide modern highway access to Manhattan and to connect to, and use similar design principles to, parkways already constructed on Long Island and Westchester County, New York.

Some developers advocate a prototyping phase before the design document is written to experiment with new ideas before they become part of the design.

Ben Trott, an advocate of the new format that became Atom, believed that RSS had limitations and flaws — such as lack of on-going innovation and its necessity to remain backward compatible — and that there were advantages to a fresh design.

Booch is also an advocate of design patterns.

Nevertheless, Olmsted, an advocate of " naturalistic " architecture and landscape design famously clashed with Hunt in 1863 over Hunt's proposal for " Scholar's Gate ", a formal entrance to Central Park at 60th Street and Fifth Avenue.

Icons of Evolution is a book by the intelligent design advocate and fellow of the Discovery Institute, Jonathan Wells, which also includes a 2002 video companion.

John Corrigan " Jonathan " Wells ( born 1942 ) is an American author and advocate of intelligent design.