Glossary:D
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Darwinist
"Darwinist" is a term that has been used in a variety of different ways. Depending on context, it can mean any of the following:
- One who treats Darwin's work as if it were holy writ (note: there is no evidence for this group actually existing)
- One who believes that evolutionary processes are sufficient to explain the diversity of life
- One who believes that evolutionary processes are the only valid explanation for the diversity of life (conn. atheism)
- One who actively supports the popularisation of evolutionary biology ("Darwin's fan club")
- One who studies evolutionary biology professionally [1]
de novo
- From the beginning.
- Anew, from the start.
Deep counterflow
Counterflow is exhibited through non-apparent involvement in the phenomena being studied.
Design
Purposeful arrangement of parts.
Design actualization
The formation of parts and/or the assembly of component parts into a system that functions to accomplish the original purpose. This action of forming/assembling is not mind-like, but hand-like, resulting in physical effects sometimes characterized and recognizable by such detection methods as counterflow, artificiality, or arifactuality. Originally clarified by Howard Van Till as quoted by Mike Gene.
Design analogues
Physical effects of intelligence which hold across the spectrum of all possiblie intelligences, including the effects of human intelligence and any other intelligence, given the constraints on physical activity (forces, space, time, energy, chance, and their interaction) imposed by the universe. For example, Biomimicry, Isomorphic instantiaion, Artificial Intelligence.
Design-centrism
An axiomatic focus on scientific research centering on the design event and any subsequent consequences, as opposed to investigating the designer(s) or what happended prior to the design event.
Design conceptualization
The act of mind in the action of designing something for the accomplishment of a purpose. Originally clarified by Howard Van Till as quoted by Mike Gene.
Design product
The physical result(s) of design conceptualization and actualization. (see above)
Designoid
An object in nature that appears to be designed, but actually intelligent agency had no part in its causal history. (Term apparently originates with Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable, 1996, pp. 6, 25; ISBN 0393316823)
Designer
An intelligent agent that arranges material structures to accomplish a purpose. Whether this agent is personal or impersonal, conscious or unconscious, part of nature or beyond nature are live possibilities within the theory of intelligent design.[2]
Diachronic counterflow
Counterflow that is perceivable chronologically over time. Diachronic counterflow may or may not have a related synchronic counterflow.
Direct counterflow
Counterflow is perceived through non-inferential indicators.
