Definitions for "Intelligent Design"
Belief that life is the product of an intelligent designer, not natural processes. ID proponents include but are not limited to believers in Genesis.
level: Comprehensive (3) [ order by level] A pseudo-scientific belief system holding that life is too complex to have evolved and therefore must have had a Creator. ID was adopted when less sophisticated attempts (such as creationism) to combat the dominance of evolution in the science classroom proved inadequate.
level: Basic (2) [ order by level] The principle that certain ordered states in nature imply the existence of an independent designer; i.e., a supernatural being that establishes and controls 'natural law.'
creationism where God is inferred, but not mentioned; horseshit with a large advertising budget
a methodology that relies on indirect logic to infer the existence of a creator.
The theory that the Universe and life is the result of an intelligent designer. It is also the school of thought that supports the idea that design can be discerned.
The true idea that the universe must have been created by God because it's so perfectly designed.