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单词 intelligent design
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intelligent designn.

Brit. /ɪnˈtɛlᵻdʒ(ə)nt dᵻˈzʌɪn/, U.S. /ᵻnˈtɛlədʒ(ə)nt dəˈzaɪn/, /ᵻnˈtɛlədʒ(ə)nt diˈzaɪn/
Forms: also with capital initials.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: intelligent adj., design n.
Etymology: < intelligent adj. + design n.
Deliberate design in the natural or physical world, attributed to an intelligent entity (usually identified as God); the appearance of this. In later use (frequently with capital initials): a theory which posits this. Cf. design n. 5.The term is now used chiefly with reference to a modified form of creation science which promotes teleological explanations while minimizing the use of religious terminology. Its proponents typically claim that many biological systems are too complex to have evolved incrementally by undirected mutation and natural selection, or show evidence of patterns which cannot be adequately explained by the action of natural processes.
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the world > life > biology > theories > [noun] > of origin or development of life
epigenesis1653
intelligent design1816
vitalism1822
ovarism1857
panspermy1857
creationism1860
monadism1860
nomogeny1868
thaumatogeny1868
biogenesis1870
panspermism1870
biogeny1871
polygenesis1871
panspermatism1874
monism1880
ovism1892
neo-vitalism1895
creation science1970
1816 J. B. Sumner Treat. Rec. Creation I. ii. 21 We must oppose all the deductions of reason and daily experience, if we for a moment remove from our system the operation and agency of intelligent design.
1868 P. A. Brady (title) The architecture of the Earth, as affording evidence of intelligent design.
1903 F. C. S. Schiller Humanism viii. 141 It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of Evolution may be guided by an intelligent design.
1940 Amer. Naturalist 74 195 Evolution proceeded, it is true, according to laws of nature, but these were the workings of intelligent design.
1993 P. Davis & D. H. Kenyon Of Pandas & People (ed. 2) 14/2 Intelligent design..locates the origin of new organisms in an immaterial cause: in a blueprint, a plan, a pattern devised by an intelligent agent.
2006 M. Shermer Why Darwin Matters iii. 42 Intelligent Design reduces the deity to mere engineer, a garage tinkerer, a technician piecing together worlds and life forms out of available materials.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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