Intelligent Design is not
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These ideas can be developed into individual research applications and be used to create new pages in a category called Clarifications of Intelligent Design.
Intelligent Design is not...
===== ...completely opposed to evolution. ===== Evolution is instead subsumed under Intelligent Design, somewhat like Newtonian mechanics is subsumed under the theory of relativity.
===== ...a baseless hypothesis with no research or positive evidence supporting it. ===== See also: Empirical ID research
...an unscientific hypothesis which cannot be disproven or falsified.
...an argument from ignorance or to ignorance.
...a "gaps" theory.
===== ...the only game in town. ===== ID does not claim that chance and natural laws have no place in science. Quite the contrary, by considering the possibility of intelligence involved in nature, it allows for new scientific applications wherein researchers tease apart natural and intelligent causes.
...a hypothesis that claims that intelligence is the only agent of change in the natural world.
===== ...trying to prove that God, gods, spirits, fairies, aliens, demons, or any other supernatural entity exists. ===== Intelligent design does not even seek to prove an intelligent designer exists, only that designed systems exist.
...Christian apologetics, or trying to prove that the God of the Bible exists.
===== ...a hypothesis that in any way identifies the intelligence involved in whatever activity is being studied. ===== Neither the nature nor the name of the designer can be ascertained by scientific evidence. Only that the activity involves intelligence is a claim that can be made through methods of design detection.
===== ...a hypothesis that makes any claim about the age of the earth and the universe. ===== Thus intelligent design is neither old earth or young earth, just like quantum theory is neither intrinsically old earth or young earth.
===== ...an American phenomena. ===== On the contrary Intelligent Design theorists and scientists are active internationally, including in countries such as Ukraine, Germany, UK, the Netherlands, Canada, Finland, Italy, Israel and Australia.
===== ...an Evangelical Christian theory. ===== Key Intelligent Design proponents include Agnostics, Athiests, Catholics, Muslims, Neo-Platonists, and Jews as well as members from other religions.
===== ...a religious theory. ===== Like any good scientific theory, Intelligent Design is public and accessible across all worldviews.
===== ...the end of science. ===== Indeed some of the best science has been done by scientists working under some sort of design hypothesis. These include luminaries such as Newton, Kepler, Einstein, Mendel, and Faraday.
