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Adherents of ID consider their idea that God causes speciation a viable scientific hypothesis. Scientists generally consider it unscientific, because it is not falsifiable and so merely a philosophical or religious idea outside the realm of science. | ||
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Intelligent design is a theory of evolution which asserts that God guided the process of evolution.
Intelligent Design (ID) accepts the idea that fossils provide scientists with a useful tool (the Fossil Record) to date the appearance and extinction of new species. Speciation is considered to occur due to deliberate acts of God. The subsequent survival or extinction of a newly arisen speciation is believed to happen due to natural selection.
ID has two ideas in common with Darwinian evolution: acceptance of the fossil record and of natural selection. This ideas distinguish ID from Sudden Creationism.
Adherents of ID consider their idea that God causes speciation a viable scientific hypothesis. Scientists generally consider it unscientific, because it is not falsifiable and so merely a philosophical or religious idea outside the realm of science.