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Recent Examples on the Web Some people have a hard time believing such perfection can come to be without intelligent design. — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, "Why We Love the Monolith," 3 Dec. 2020 There is, in all of this movement, no fixed pattern, no overarching intention, no trace of intelligent design. — Stephen Greenblatt, The New Yorker, "Invisible Bullets: What Lucretius Taught Us About Pandemics," 16 Mar. 2020 Popp and Cotton said evolution, creationism and intelligent design should all be allowed in the science curriculum. — Alia Malik, ExpressNews.com, "Multiple candidates vying in State Board of Education district representing San Antonio," 9 Feb. 2020 In terms of intellectual respectability, astrology falls somewhere between flat-earth conspiracy theories and belief in intelligent design. — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, "The Mail," 13 Apr. 2018 In Arizona last year, three of the candidates vying for state school superintendent wanted students to be taught intelligent design, the Arizona Daily Sun reported. — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, "Why Some Public-School Kids Don’t Learn About Evolution," 19 Sep. 2019 Roosegaarde believe the solutions to climate change start with intelligent design. — Robert Horn, Fortune, "Why Two Environmentally-Minded Designers Are Optimistic About the Future," 6 Sep. 2019 Further Reading The Lamborghini Huracán Evo is actually proof of intelligent designThe C8 gets a new variant of the GM family direct-injection 6.2L V8, called the LT2. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, "The Corvette goes mid-engined—supercar performance for $60,000," 19 July 2019 Nothing is so tricky, and honors an audience so much, as the laying out of a careful, intelligent design. — Peter Marks, Washington Post, "Elizabethan," 21 Aug. 2019

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“Intelligent design.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligent%20design. Accessed 17 Jan. 2021.