(see the chapters by Dembski, Meyer and Nelson in this volume). Thus what has been a long-standing but fuzzy philosophical intuition can now be cashed out as a robust program of scientific research. At the same time intelligent design resists speculating about the nature, moral character or purposes of this intelligence (here is a task for the theologian—to connect the intelligence inferred by the design theorist with the God of Scripture). This is one of the great strengths of intelligent design,
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