English Dictionary

intelligent design

固有名詞

The belief that biological life on Earth, or more broadly, the universe as a whole, was created by an intelligent agent (specified or unspecified) rather than being the result of undirected natural processes.

日本語の意味

インテリジェント・デザインとは、地球上の生命体や、場合によっては宇宙全体が、無作為な自然の過程によらず、知的な存在（特定されている場合も、そうでない場合もある）によって創造されたという考え方を指します。

The debate over intelligent design in school biology classes continues to shape education policy.

学校の生物学の授業における知的設計論をめぐる論争は、教育政策に影響を与え続けている。

意味（1）

The belief that biological life on Earth, or more broadly, the universe as a whole, was created by an intelligent agent (specified or unspecified) rather than being the result of undirected natural processes.

Anaxagoras (500–428 B.C.) was the first of the Greeks to attribute the adaptations of Nature to Intelligent Design, and was thus the founder of Teleology, an idea that has played a retarding function in the history of evolution.