intelligent design

English

Etymology

Became a standard and widely promoted term in the 1987 draft of Of Pandas and People by Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon, as a repackaging of the term creationism after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the teaching of creationism in Edwards v. Aguillard (1987).

Proper noun

intelligent design

The belief that biological life on Earth, or more broadly, the universe as a whole, was created by an intelligent agent (specified or unspecified) rather than being the result of undirected natural processes.
- 1926, Horatio Hackett Newman, chapter 2, in Evolution, Genetics And Eugenics, page 13:
  Anaxagoras (500–428 B.C.) was the first of the Greeks "to attribute the adaptations of Nature to Intelligent Design, and was thus the founder of Teleology," an idea that has played a retarding function in the history of evolution.
- 2006, Philip Clayton; Zachary R. Simpson, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, Oxford University Press,, →ISBN, page 735:
  Intelligent design means that the various forms of life began abruptly through the agency of an intelligent creator with their distinctive features already intact—fish with fins and scales, birds with feathers, beaks, and wings, etc.

Synonyms

IDism
ID

intelligent designism
neo-creationism

Hypernyms

creationism

Derived terms

intelligent designist (IDist, designist)

Related terms

IDer
IDist
IDM
IDT
intelligent design movement
intelligent design theory

Translations

intelligent design / Intelligent Design

Arabic: التَصْمِيم الذَكِيّ‎ m (at-taṣmīm aḏ-ḏakiyy)
Catalan: disseny intel·ligent m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 智能設計／智能设计 (zh) (zhìnéng shèjì), 智慧設計／智慧设计 (zhìhuì shèjì)
Czech: inteligentní plán m
Danish: intelligent design
Dutch: intelligent design
Esperanto: inteligenta dezajno
Finnish: älykäs suunnittelu (fi)
French: dessein intelligent m
Georgian: გონიერი ქმნილება (gonieri kmnileba)
German: Intelligent Design n
Hebrew: תכנון תבוני‎ m
Hungarian: intelligens tervezés
Indonesian: intelligent design
Italian: disegno intelligente m
Japanese: インテリジェント・デザイン (interijento dezain), 知能設計 (chinō-sekkei)
Korean: 지적 설계 (jijeok seolgye)
Latvian: apzināta radīšana
Norwegian: intelligent design
Polish: teoria inteligentnego projektu f
Portuguese: design inteligente m
Romanian: design inteligent
Russian: разу́мный за́мысел m (razúmnyj zámysel)
Serbo-Croatian: inteligentni dizajn m
Spanish: diseño inteligente m
Swedish: intelligent design
Turkish: akıllı tasarım
Yiddish: אינטעליזשענט דעזיין‎ (intelizhent dezayn)