intelligent designer

collocation in English

meaningsofintelligentanddesigner

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intelligent
adjective
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/ɪnˈtel.ɪ.dʒənt/us
/ɪnˈtel.ə.dʒənt/
showing intelligence, or able to learn and understand ...
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designer
noun[C]
uk
/dɪˈzaɪ.nər/us
/dɪˈzaɪ.nɚ/
a person who imagines how something could be made and draws plans ...
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(Definition ofintelligentanddesignerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They need only be such that anintelligentdesigneris likely to endorse them.
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Behe concludes that insofar as the biochemistry of vision is irreducibly complex it can be explained, like all irreducibly complex systems, only by positing anintelligentdesigner.
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This contradicts the argument that anintelligentdesigneris required for the most complex systems.
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The scenario of many unobserved universes plays the same logical role as the scenario of anintelligentdesigner.
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This supplementary textbook for school use attacked evolutionary biology without mentioning the identity of the supposedintelligentdesigner.
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Deism in the classical sense means belief in anintelligentdesignerarrived at through reason and observation of the natural world.
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The book makes no explicit reference to the identity of theintelligentdesigner.
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Thus, proponents argue, anintelligentdesignerof life was needed to ensure that the requisite features were present to achieve that particular outcome.
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The vast majority of scientists reject the concept of intelligent design and anintelligentdesigner.
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Unlike human thieves, however, we are in the dark regarding the motivations and psychology of intelligent designers.
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Paley went on to argue that the complex structures of living things and the remarkable adaptations of plants and animals required anintelligentdesigner.
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Panda editors also deleted more than 250 references to creationism and the creator and replaced them in the final version with intelligent design andintelligentdesigner.
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Other commentators have noted that evolution through selection is frequently used to design certain electronic, aeronautic and automotive systems which are considered problems too complex for human intelligent designers.
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