What is intelligent design view on survival of the fittest and natural selection?

Question

What is intelligent design view on survival of the fittest and natural selection?

Answer 1

Intelligent Design does is not an actual theory or concept.  It is merely a code word for Geneses Creationism.

Answer 2

Forget intelligent design. Its nothing more than trying to backdoor Religion into the Public School System again. I find where in a country that there is a Church on practically every street corner that this is not enough for these Religious Zealots. They will not be happy until they have us all non believers crucified from one end of Route 66 to the other end.

Answer 3

"Intelligent Design"  was invented to directly confront "Natural Selection" - note the syntactical interchangeability of the two phrases.  

As a rather strict Darwinian evolutionist, I don't agree with the commonplace notion of survival of the fittest, but rather prefer the phrase 'survival of the adequate' - which leaves out all of the assumptions of progressive directionality and wishful thinking from the  evolutionary equation in favor of what is actually observed in ecosystems, genetics, the fossil record, and elsewhere and yet sticks with the mechanism of natural selection quite well.  

I have not found any 'take' on Survival of the Fittest written by a believer of ID, and I think the reasons may be important to consider. If one invents "God's will" in place of selective mechanisms, one must confront the issue of why an all-loving god would discriminate judgmentally against one species and thereby benefit another.  And, by extension,if one were to inapropriately apply strict evolutionary models to human societies (as many in my field continue to do), the ID thinker would run smack up against the same racist and nationalist biases that so many evolutionary anthropologists have faced (whether or not the criticism is essentially accurate). in other words - saying anything about this from an ID perspective would be a political hot potato.  

I have read a few attempts by believers in ID which attempt to 'reign in' the empirically demonstrable natural selection mechanism by arguing that this mechanism and all its complexity could not operate well without a grand designer pulling the strings, or could not have come about without advanced planning.  What these arguments tend to lack, besides any kind of parsimony, is the knowledge that natural selection is neither complex nor progressive. It simply IS.

Answer 4

I don't think they actually have an opinion on it. And a lot of evolutionist hate that term survival of the fittest. Paints a very unrealistic, untrue story in evolutionary terms (dead 20 yo with 5 children is more fit than a 100 yo w/o children). And intelligent design seeks to attack natural selection at any weak points it may show.

Answer 5

That's what goes on with the microbes in the Petrie Dish, when the Lab Technician goes out to Lunch!