Intelligent design movement

<p>The intelligent design movement is a <a href="/facts/Neo-creationist/rze8xyTo">neo-creationist</a> religious campaign for broad social, academic and political change to promote and support the pseudoscientific idea of <a href="/facts/Intelligent_design/BWx7LxGf">intelligent design</a> (ID), which asserts that "certain features of the <a href="/facts/Universe/XbfpnDmM">universe</a> and of <a href="/facts/Life/DNw7NUId">living things</a> are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as <a href="/facts/Natural_selection/JXTte6en">natural selection</a>." Its chief activities are a campaign to promote public awareness of this concept, the <a href="/facts/Lobbying/lzdxSAUj">lobbying</a> of policymakers to include its teaching in <a href="/facts/High_school/GjEqd0fa">high school</a> <a href="/facts/Science/IJoaD7rs">science</a> classes, and legal action, either to defend such teaching or to remove barriers otherwise preventing it. The movement arose out of the <a href="/facts/Creation_science/myq6at3d">creation science</a> movement in the United States, and is driven by a small group of proponents. The <a href="/facts/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/CEyVsjlN">Encyclopædia Britannica</a> explains that ID cannot be empirically tested and that it fails to solve the <a href="/facts/Problem_of_evil/NuzJgI1S">problem of evil</a>; thus, it is neither sound science nor sound theology.
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Intelligent design movement