intelligent design

Meaning

Proper Noun

• 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.

Related

Similar words

• IDism
• ID
• intelligent designism
• neo-creationism

Broader meaning words

• creationism

Origin

• 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).