ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses a large amount of material to identify the core of the Intelligent Design (ID) movement's argumentation and how ID relates to and differs from naturalism and theistic evolutionism. ID has sought to present a minimalistic argument for design while avoiding getting deeply into the complex philosophical and theological work of integrating this argument to a broader worldview. Proponents of ID find it worrisome that theistic evolutionists do not necessarily differ from atheistic evolutionists on the level of scientific theory. The mainstream of the scientific community agrees that evolution has happened, though there continues to be much significant disagreement of the particulars. In the theology and science community, it is broadly accepted that God's creative acts are free and people need empirical research to find out what sort of world God did create.
