Is a common definition of design too narrow? Is theistic evolution a design theory?
In Perspectives on an Evolving Creation, Loren Haarsma & Terry Gray say, In recent years, some people [such as Phillip Johnson and William Dembski] have appropriated the name ‘Intelligent Design’ for a particular theory — the theory that biological evolution is limited to making small changes so that biological complexity could only have been produced if God (or someone) superseded evolution during biological history. … Whatever might be said, good or bad, about the scientific and theological arguments of Intelligent Design theory, we are troubled by the appropriation of the word ‘design’ to exclude evolution. Intelligent Design theory, the way it is typically presented, seems to offer the following choice: either modern life forms evolved or they were designed. That is a false choice.
