Intelligent design #creationism is a #pseudoscience that maintains that certain aspects of the physical world, and more specifically life, superficially look designed, and hence WERE designed, by an intelligent being (usually, but not always, the #God of the #Christian religion). Although the concept is pre-scientific, it only really came into common circulation after the 1980s.

Supporters of intelligent design (termed "design proponents", less respectfully, IDiots) usually claim that the idea is not based on Christian creationism, although the existence of the Wedge Document is a pretty big hint that there is a link, and a now-infamous epic editing fail in an early draft of the ID textbook Of Pandas and People also accidentally revealed the God man behind the curtain.

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