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Hey, could you please repost that definition of "Intelligent Design" that we began with as one of our reference points. I think it was from the Discovery Institute. I could go back and find it, but it's buried deep in my comments list by now and you probably have it on hand.

Hey, could you please repost that definition of "Intelligent Design" that we began with as one of our reference points. I think it was from the Discovery Institute.

Be glad to. Also, for the Lurkers just now getting interested in this project - it started with my initial post 1144. The conversation was scattered until post 1452 where you suggested we narrow in on the definitions. But enough of the background...

Discovery.org: Intelligent Design holds that ”certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.”

Your first rephrasing: Intelligent Design: A hypothesis wherein speciation is explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.

My rephrasing: Intelligent Design: An hypothesis wherein certain features of life v non-life/death in nature are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process.

PatrickHenry's rephrasing: Intelligent Design: A hypothesis that certain biological features or processes that are otherwise inexplicable are explained by an intelligent cause, rather than by an undirected process such as natural selection.