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{{dablink|This article is about the concept of intelligent design. See also the [[teleological argument]]. For the associated social movement see [[#ID as a movement|ID as a movement]]. For the book, see ''[[Intelligent Design (book)]]''.}}
'''Intelligent Design''' (or '''ID''') is the [[Controversy|controversial]] assertion that certain features of the [[universe]] and of [[life|living things]] exhibit the characteristics of a product resulting from an [[intelligence (trait)|intelligent cause or agent]], not an undirected process such as [[natural selection]]. Though publicly most ID advocates state that their focus is on detecting evidence of design in [[nature]], without regard to who or what the designer might be, in statements to their constituents and supporters nearly all state explicitly that they believe the designer to be the [[Christian]] [[God]].
Adherents of ID claim it stands on equal footing with the current scientific theories regarding the [[origin of life]] and the [[cosmogony|origin of the universe]] {{ref|intro_meyer}}. This claim has not been accepted by the [[scientific community]] and intelligent design does not constitute a [[research|research program]] within the [[science]] of [[biology]]. Despite ID sometimes being refered to popularly and in the [[media]] as "Intelligent Design Theory", it is not recognized as a [[scientific theory]] and has been categorized by the mainstream [[scientific community]] as [[creationist]] [[pseudoscience]]. The [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] has said that Intelligent Design "and other claims of [[supernatural]] intervention in the origin of life" are not science because their claims cannot be tested by [[scientific experiment|experiment]] and propose no new [[hypothesis|hypotheses]] of their own {{ref|nas_id_creationism}}. Critics argue that ID proponents find gaps within current [[modern evolutionary synthesis|evolutionary theory]] and fill them in with speculative [[belief|beliefs]], and that ID in this context may ultimately amount to the "[[God of the gaps]]" {{ref|intro_shanks}}.
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