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Apparent Design

Apparent design is the conjunctive property of 1) a thing not being designed and 2) a thing possessing a set of qualities that make it seem designed. Many Darwinists (like Richard Dawkins) agree that biology studies complex structures that appear to have been designed for a functional purpose. Although the term “design” appears widely throughout the biological literature, Darwinists deny that the directed organization of living things results from the purposive activity of an actual intelligence. Instead, they refer it to blind natural forces like natural selection and random variation. By contrast, intelligent design emphasizes that the design in biology is not merely apparent but actual.

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