IDEA Center Intelligent Design FAQ Listings

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• Can we positively say something was designed? • Does intelligent design make predictions? Is it testable? • Is it appropriate to justify intelligent design theory via analogies? • Does intelligent design completely reject Darwinian evolution? • Does intelligent design theory implement the scientific method? • Has a lack of intelligent design theory hindered scientific progress? • Is ID just a negative argument against evolution? • Does intelligent design theory makes the “Unexplained” = “Unexplainable” fallacy? • Aren’t “biological machines” too different from human-made machines to be considered examples of designed machines? • Can irreducible complexity can be evolved via gene duplication and co-optation of parts? • How did the designer do the designing? • Is intelligent design merely an “argument from ignorance?” • Hasn’t intelligent design theory been proven wrong? • What sort of progress has intelligent design made recently? • Wouldn’t intelligent design theory be the end of scientific investigation–a “science stopper?”	• Who Designed the Designer? • ID is asking us to accept the existence of an intelligent designer. Where is there evidence for the intelligent designer? • Isn’t intelligent design just a rehash of William Paley’s 19th century design arguments, refuted Hume and Darwin? • According to intelligent design theory, who is the designer and why can’t intelligent design theory identitfy the designer? • Some things appear “unintelligently designed” or are poorly designed. Is ID falsified by “sub-optimal design”? • Is ID a “god-of-the-gaps” argument? • Is intelligent design an appeal to miracles or the supernatural? • Is ID just a religious concept? • Could something be designed if it were an “evil design?” • What are intelligent agents and how do they act? • Can we tell the “purpose” of a designed object? • What is the mechanism the designer used to design?	• Would teaching intelligent design violate the Establishment Clause of First Amendment of the Constitution? • Doesn’t ID suggest eliminating evolution from schools or “watering down” the curriculum? • Why is intelligent design theory often controversial? • Isn’t intelligent design just a movement trying to push a political agenda? • What prompts a group of people to challenge the dominant scientific paradigm? • Does ID want to sneak creationism through the “back door” (into science and schools)? • Is intelligent design just creationism (or creationism “in disguise”)? • Why isn’t intelligent design found published in peer-reviewed science journals? • Isn’t ID just trying to “sabotage science”? • Is ID just in the U.S. or is it also international?