单词 | intelligent design |
释义 | intelligent designn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1816 |
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