What is intelligent design? Who proposes it?
6A. four types of design: Maybe a feature of nature was produced by intelligent design, by a) natural process because nature was designed so this would occur, b) natural process that was supernaturally guided to produce a desired natural-appearing result; or by the detectable design-directed action of c) a supernatural agent, or d) a natural agent. 6B. The usual meaning of Intelligent Design is “detectable design-action,” so evolutionary creationists — who say “this wasn’t necessary in formative history” but affirm two types of divine design (a and b) — are not included in the “big tent community” of Intelligent Design. Logically, a basic design theory — which only claims “design-action did occur” and does not propose divine action, but does acknowledge this as a possibility — is not a creation theory. Sociologically, there are connections between design and creation, including young-earth “scientific creationism”, and this is relevant when we’re thinking about origins education in pub
