ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews and evaluates the intelligent design (ID) movement's arguments scientifically, and theologically from the Ashʿarite paradigm as outlined by al-Ghazālī. Currently, ID's status as a scientific alternative to evolution is questionable. Whether it will eventually gain any scientific traction has to be left to the scientists to determine. From a theological perspective, it is argued that ID cannot be thought of as an exclusively theistic alternative to Neo-Darwinian evolution. Within the Ashʿarite paradigm, which stresses the radical contingency of God's creations, and the logical broadness of his creative capabilities, ID and Neo-Darwinian evolution are equally possible under the creative acts of God. Therefore, there is nothing intrinsically theistic about ID, and nor is there anything intrinsically atheistic about Neo-Darwinian evolution.
