Intelligent design movement
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| - | The '''intelligent design movement''' is a [[neo-creationism|neo-creationist]] religious campaign for broad social, academic and political change to promote and support the pseudoscientific<ref name="Boudry 2010">{{cite journal |last1=Boudry |first1=Maarten |authorlink1=Maarten Boudry |last2=Blancke |first2=Stefaan |last3=Braeckman |first3=Johan |authorlink3=Johan Braeckman |date=December 2010 |title=Irreducible Incoherence and Intelligent Design: A Look into the Conceptual Toolbox of a Pseudoscience |journal=[[The Quarterly Review of Biology]] |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |volume=85 |issue=4 |pages=473–482 |doi=10.1086/656904 |pmid=21243965|url=https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/952482/file/6828579.pdf |hdl=1854/LU-952482 }} Article available from [https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/952482 Universiteit Gent]</ref> idea of [[intelligent design]] (ID), which asserts that "certain features of the [[universe]] and of [[life|living things]] are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as [[natural selection]]."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.discovery.org/csc/topQuestions.php#questionsAboutIntelligentDesign |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=CSC - Top Questions: Questions About Intelligent Design: What is the theory of intelligent design? |website=[[Center for Science and Culture]] |publisher=[[Discovery Institute]] |location=Seattle, WA |accessdate=2014-06-05}}</ref><ref>[[#Forrest & Gross 2004|Forrest & Gross 2004]], p. 7</ref><ref name="ForrestMay2007Paper">{{cite web|url=http://www.centerforinquiry.net/uploads/attachments/intelligent-design.pdf |title=Understanding the Intelligent Design Creationist Movement: Its True Nature and Goals |last=Forrest |first=Barbara |authorlink=Barbara Forrest |date=May 2007 |website=[[Center for Inquiry]] |publisher=Center for Inquiry |location=Washington, D.C. |accessdate=2007-08-06 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519124655/http://www.centerforinquiry.net/uploads/attachments/intelligent-design.pdf |archivedate=2011-05-19 |df= }}</ref> Its chief activities are a campaign to promote public awareness of this concept, the [[lobbying]] of policymakers to include its teaching in [[high school]] [[science]] classes, and legal action, either to defend such teaching or to remove barriers otherwise preventing it.<ref name="wedge_strategy">{{cite web |url=http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.pdf |title=The Wedge |year=1999 |publisher=[[Center for Science and Culture|Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture]] |location=Seattle, WA |accessdate=2014-05-29}}</ref><ref name="Forrest_2001">[[#Pennock 2001|Forrest 2001]], [http://infidels.org/library/modern/barbara_forrest/wedge.html "The Wedge at Work: How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream"]</ref> The movement arose out of the [[creation science]] movement in the [[United States]],<ref>{{cite court|litigants=Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School | + | The '''intelligent design movement''' is a [[neo-creationism|neo-creationist]] religious campaign for broad social, academic and political change to promote and support the pseudoscientific idea of [[intelligent design]] (ID), which asserts that "certain features of the [[universe]] and of [[life|living things]] are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as [[natural selection]]." |
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| *''[[Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed]]'' | *''[[Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed]]'' | ||
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The intelligent design movement is a neo-creationist religious campaign for broad social, academic and political change to promote and support the pseudoscientific idea of intelligent design (ID), which asserts that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."
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See also
- Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
- Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center
- Intelligent design in politics
- Intelligent design network
- Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
- Wedge strategy
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