Intelligent design (Teleology) (Topical Term)

Dembski, W. Intelligent design, 1999.

Encyc. of fundamentalism, 2001 (intelligent design movement)

Web site The Secular Web Library, Nov. 22, 2002 ("Intelligent Design" theory, this argument asserts that the enormous complexity found in nature can only be explained by the presence of a cosmic "designer")

Web site Intelligent Design Network, Inc., Nov. 22, 2002 (Intelligent Design is a scientific theory that intelligent causes are responsible for the origin of the universe and of life and its diversity. It holds that design is empirically detectable in nature, and particularly in living systems)

Oxford companion to philosophy, 2005 (creationism: its most recent manifestation now goes under the title of 'intelligent design')

Here are entered works on the theory that there are elements of design in the natural world, especially the biological world, that indicate its creation by an intelligent agent.