Buell, what is intelligent design?
A Intelligent design is the view that, just as intelligent causes are well accepted in branches of science, and I mentioned this a while ago, that forensic science and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence or SETI, and you might picture the Arecibo Observatory in the movie Contact that was about Carl Sagan’s work and so forth, those were the implements, the tools of SETI, as well as in archeology. These branches of science are very accustomed to and comfortable with the assignment to identify the product of intelligent design. And so if we take that same rationale and we start with the observation that in biological organisms, in the genome, there is dramatically highly organized, mathematically highly improbable organization along the spine of the DN A molecule, so that the genome as a whole is something that defies, that boggles our mind. So this would be I think a good starting place for the definition of intelligent design.
