Common Questions

This series of questions is based on issues raised at the range of seminars and lectures organised by the Centre for Intelligent Design throughout the UK. They are mostly at a popular level and illustrate the range of issues which arise when the position of Intelligent Design (ID) is explored. As you would expect, some of the questions get to the heart of the design argument, but others are more peripheral. Nonetheless all are important. They provide a useful introduction to the types of objections which arise around the design argument.

If you have other issues you would like to raise, please do so by emailing Alastair Noble on info@c4id.org.uk and a response will appear on the website in due course.

The first three "common questions" appear in summary form below. Please click on the READ MORE ARTICLES button to see a summary of all the questions currently dealt with on this site.

The range of questions will be added to over time.

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Common Questions: 1 Is there real design in Nature or do we just impose it?

We know instinctively when an object is designed. However, there are objective criteria for design which can also be applied to the natural world.

Common Questions: 2 What does ID say about evolution?

Intelligent Design does not rule out some aspects of evolution, but the existence of design in Nature fundamentally contradicts the Darwinian view.

Common Questions: 3 Why not Darwin and Design?

It is theoretically possible that some form gradual evolution could be part of the design of the universe but the evidence for that is scant and this would no longer be the accepted Darwinian view of origins, but something quite different.