Introduction Intelligent Design (ID) has long stood as a provocative alternative to the reigning scientific orthodoxy of methodological naturalism. At its core, ID argues that certain features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection. While ID has raised essential challenges to Darwinian mechanisms and highlighted the exquisite informational structure embedded in biological systems, it has often lacked a robust methodological foundation to rival the philosophical rigor of naturalism. Enter Methodological Designarism —a next-phase refinement of Intelligent Design that doesn’t merely critique naturalism but supplants it with a superior epistemic framework. Rather than treating design as an inference drawn after excluding other causes, Designarism recognizes intelligent causation as a primary, positive explanatory principle —one that is logically, causally, and empirically grounded. I. Why Methodo...
1. Introduction The contemporary tension between scientific inquiry and biblical faith is often framed as a conflict between reason and revelation. On one side stands naturalism, which interprets reality as the emergent product of chance processes operating over vast time scales. On the other stands biblical theism, which asserts that the universe was created with purpose, order, and intentionality by a rational, personal God. Attempts to reconcile these paradigms have often resulted in either the erosion of theological fidelity or the dismissal of scientific evidence. What is needed is not compromise, but coherence—a worldview capable of integrating theology, logic, and empirical observation without internal contradiction. Biblical Christian Designarism (BCD) is proposed as such a framework. Rooted in the authority of Scripture and informed by philosophical and scientific analysis, BCD offers a programmatic model of reality. At its core is the belief in an Ultimate Orchestrating Mind...