Darwin and ID

John Peet  |  Features
Date posted:  1 May 2009
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It is often thought that the ‘intelligent design movement’ is a 21st century invention by creationists. This is clearly not the case.

Even Darwin recognised the argument. He wrote in his autobiography: ‘When thus reflecting, I feel compelled to look at a first cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man …’

The meaning of ‘design’

The word ‘design’ is often used in popular presentations even by atheistic evolutionists, but clearly must have a different meaning to that normally understood by us. In contrast to modern evolutionists, Darwin recognised that the issue centres around an intelligent Designer. This concept should be one to unite creationists and theistic evolutionists, but strangely it has aggravated the situation.

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