In comparison to Creationism, Intelligent Design brings a very different perspective. It argues that certain features of the natural and living world show clear evidence of design and are not the result of blind and purposeless process like natural selection acting on random mutations.

 

Intelligent Design does not draw on any religious authority of presuppositions, but argues from empirical data like:-  The fine-tuning of the universe, the complexity of biological ‘machines’ in every cell of our body and the massive sophistication of the digital genetic code carried in our DNA – which Bill Gates has described as a computer code similar to the ones in computer software but much more complex.

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Intelligent Design implies clearly, an intelligent cause for the universe and is therefore supportive of Theism.  It should not however be equated with ‘creationism’ as popularly understood. Intelligent Design is a valid, legitimate scientific inference from the data and best evidence available to us and is consistent with our everyday experience of the cause and effect structure of the world.

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Intelligent design theory does not go so far as to claim that the ‘Intelligent Designer’ is God and does not rely on any religious premises whatsoever, but it does have profound religious implications as it directly refutes materialistic atheism.

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The theory of Intelligent Design is based upon our proven scientific methods and it points to the well known fact that:-

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 The universe had a beginning, a moment of creation in which not only all of the present energy and matter came into being but all of space and time as well. This moment of creation is known as the ‘Big Bang’.