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Flagellum MechanismIntelligent design is a science perspective which infers that natural laws and chance alone are not adequate to explain all natural phenomena. Intelligent design is closely synonymous to creation science. It may only be distinguished by the fact that it makes no claims about who the creator was, nor does it use references from religious texts when forming theories about the history of our world. ID simply postulates that the universe possesses evidence that it was intelligently designed.

"By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning. An irreducibly complex system cannot be produced directly (that is, by continuously improving the initial function, which continues to work by the same mechanism) by slight, successive modifications of a precursor system, because any precursor to an irreducibly complex system that is missing a part is by definition nonfunctional. An irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would be a powerful challenge to Darwinian evolution. Since natural selection can only choose systems that are already working, then if a biological system cannot be produced gradually it would have to arise as an integrated unit, in one fell swoop, for natural selection to have any thing to act on." Michael Behe, Associate Professor of Biochemistry at Lehigh University, 1996




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Anthropic Principle

The anthropic principle originates from the observation that earth uniquely and perfectly meets the requirements for life, and more specifically human life. Anthropic comes from the greek word anthropis (Man). The very presence of human life within the universe is reliant upon a large number of extremely improbably natural events, and our ecosystem is so fragile that even the slightest alteration would make it impossible for life to exist. The anthropic principle suggests that earth has been specifically designed for the existence of humans.

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