Is Intelligent Design a genuine scientific theory?
The theory of ‘Intelligent Design’ holds that the sort of complexity displayed by biological organisms could not have come about by the processes postulated by Darwin’s evolutionary theory; such organisms could have arisen only through the work of an intelligent designer. Now it is often urged that, unlike, say, the theory of gravity, such a theory is not ‘a real scientific theory’. This, however, could be taken in two different ways.
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