文档介绍：Is it enough to point out
‘intelligent design’ in the world?
AIG’S VIEWS ON THE ‘INTELLIGENT DESIGN’ MOVEMENT
A BRIEF HISTORY OF DESIGN
THE NEW ANTI-DARWINISM
Is it enough to point out the evidence of ‘intelligent design’ in the world? • What is the ‘bottom line’ issue when using the design argu-
ment? • Is the ‘plexity’ argument still valid? • What are other evidences of ‘design’? • What about ‘chaos theory’?
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AiG’s views on the Intelligent Design Movement
by Carl Wieland
Introduction
The argument of ‘intelligent design’(ID) has a long history going back to the ancient Greeks
and It was persuasively articulated by William Paley (1743–1805), who put forward
the argument of an inferred divine Watchmaker in his book Natural Theology (1802). Modern
Biblical creationists have also used the design argument in their opposition to But
the works of modern scholars such as Michael Denton (Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, 1985) and
Phillip Johnson (Darwin on Trial, 1991) have led to the formation of an association of scientists
and other scholars, which has e known as the ‘Intelligent Design Movement’(IDM or ID
movement).
Many of our supporters have asked us repeatedly for our position on the IDM, so this document
is in response to that. It is not intended to be a hostile review by any means. Many in the creation
movement, including AiG and me personally, have friendly relations with, and personally like,
some of the people prominent in the IDM.
The modern concept of intelligent design has been simply formulated as the belief that certain
biological lines of evidence (., the ‘plexity’ of features such as the bacterial
flagellum) are evidence for a designer and against blind naturalistic processes.
The modern Intelligent Design Movement (IDM)
The Intelligent Design Movement’s motivation appears to be the desire to challenge the blind
acceptance of the ma