Who is in the Big Tent of Intelligent Design, and why?
An atheist rejects divine design and will affirm only design-action by a natural agent. All theists should accept the possibility of all four types of design. But there is disagreement about the reality of detectable design-action; evolutionary creationists think this was not necessary in formative history, and even though they propose two types of divine design — a design of nature, and natural-appearing guidance — the “big tent of Intelligent Design” isn’t big enough for them because, in the mainstream ID community, detectable design-directed action is the usual meaning of intelligent design (ID).
