argument from or to design
The argument that the world (meaning the entire universe) sufficiently resembles a machine or a work of art or architecture, for it to be reasonable for us to posit a designer whose intellect is ...
creationism
1 The doctrine that a new soul is created afresh for each person: opposed to traducianism.2 In the philosophy of biology, the belief that perceived difficulties or gaps in the scientific theory of ...
Darwinism
The theory of evolution by natural selection, often used incorrectly as a synonym for the theory of evolution itself. The term ‘neo-Darwinism’ is often used to denote the ‘new synthesis’ (i.e. ...
vestigial
adj. existing only in a rudimentary form. The term is applied to organs whose structure and function have diminished during the course of evolution until only a rudimentary structure exists.
