Teoria inteligentnego projektu a ewolucjonizm

According to intelligent design theory certain natural phenomena were designed by an intelligent being. The patterns found in these phenomena are claimed to be evidence for this. Intelligent design theory is proposed as a scientific alternative to naturalistic concepts, which reject the role of intelligence in the natural world. The most common adversary of design theorists is neo-Darwinism. Critics of intelligent design frequently claim that it is anti-evolutionary. I argue that such an approach leads to misunderstandings. The term „evolution" is ambiguous and intelligent design theory is not „anti-evolutionist" in every sense of the term. It is anti-evolutionist only if evolution is understood naturalistically, as excluding the activity of intelligence from every step of a natural process. Furthermore, a design theorist can be a naturalistic evolutionist in one domain, such as biology, while accepting design arguments in another, such as cosmology. Intelligent design theory does not even require the rejection of neo-Darwinism.