The term "evolution" just means "change" or "development". Thus it is reasonable to describe as "evolved" anything that has become what it is by successive improvements. What is much more contentious is the means by which the improvements occur. It is obvious that evolution can occur if an intelligent designer makes it occur. What is less obvious, and not believed by some, is that evolution can occur *without* an intelligent designer, by the mechanism that Darwin describes as Natural Selection. Whilst those who believe that creation took six days will never be convinced, there are many people who agree that the fossil record shows that evolution occurred, but they cannot agree that it occurred by chance, and therefore believe that an Intelligent Designer must have steered it in order to create something as complex as (to pick a random example) humans. Darwinists believe that this can occur by a combination of random chance and selection.

My answer is that people intuitively recognize characteristics of design in life, but they have been trained in bio class to call that design "evolution." That they then go on to describe man-made things as “evolved” shows they recognize that the same word that describes livings things should also be used to describe designed things. Since the term “evolution” means only “change”, it’s ambiguity in reference to entropy means that it can be used to describe both designed things and things made naturally. That is, it describes all things. Evo via natural selection is a description of change without reference to time. Since the bio theory of evo can incorporate all possible outcomes(ie, it makes no testable predictions because it predicts both change and stasis, increases and decreases in complexity, and doesn’t recognize entropy) it simply means “change” and is a description of a ubiquitous process without reference to time. Hence, evolution via ns can be projected onto the living and non living, things designed and things not. It can just as easily describe finches as it can automobiles. But, it does not tell us the origin of either because it can’t differentiate a designed thing from a hole in the ground. So, people can use the term “evolution” to describe that which is designed because evolution via ns is a theory that can’t help us distinguish what is designed from what is not.

I think you confuse "evolution" with "evolution by natural selection." Cars, computers and life on earth all evolved. The difference is that cars and computers evolved by way of a different form of selection than life has (as still is).

Many words in the english language have multiple uses. The term "evolution" simply means the process of formation or growth or development. The term is often used to describe the process of natural selection, which does involve evolution but the two are not really synonyms. A simple trip to the dictionary would have answered your question. The only person confused is you and anyone else who evidently does not understand the actual meaning of the word.

For mainly because of religious belief some people want to apply ID into where nature itself does a fine job evolving characteristics to enable survival- as well as enhancement of species.

Cars and other human inventions have gone through a sort of evolution. The definition of evolution is that there is diversity and selection. In the usual way, this means, for example, there are many different living things that have different traits, and then food shortages or natural disasters make the weaker ones die off, and the stronger ones lived to have babies and populate the world. It's kindof similar for machines and other "intelligently designed" things. There might have been several mechanics that designed engines, and then the one that worked the best sold the most and now all cars have those. Or computers. Maybe there were many designs for how they could work, but in the end a few systems were most popular and now you can really only buy those kinds.

Because it is actually the primary meaning of the term. The scientific sense appeared much later: "evolve 1641, "to unfold, open out, expand," from L. evolvere "unroll," from ex- "out" + volvere "to roll" (see vulva). Evolution (1622), originally meant "unrolling of a book;" it first was used in the modern scientific sense 1832 by Scot. geologist Charles Lyell. Charles Darwin used the word only once, in the closing paragraph of "The Origin of Species" (1859), and preferred descent with modification, in part because evolution already had been used in the 18c. homunculus theory of embryological development (first proposed under this name by Bonnet, 1762), in part because it carried a sense of "progress" not found in Darwin's idea. But Victorian belief in progress prevailed (along with brevity), and Herbert Spencer and other biologists popularized evolution." Source and further information: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=evolution&searchmode=none "Noun evolution (plural evolutions) 1. (general) A gradual process of development, formation, or growth, esp. one leading to a more advanced or complex form. 2. (biology) The change in the genetic composition of a population over successive generations. 3. (mathematics) The extraction of a root from a quantity. 4. (military) One of a series of ordered movements." Source and further information: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/evolution

The confusion is in the opposite direction. ID and other creationist movements have intentionally clouded the issues. I can say that because there is tons of science and evidence to support evolution but for creationism there is nothing but people's personal beliefs. But I suspect you are perfectly aware of all that - and that you are one of those who intentionally help spread the misinformation in order to confuse less educated people and win some for the science-less side.

I am 71-3/4 years old. I have evolved through the years from a very shy youngster who was introverted to a relatively unselfconscious oldster who reaches out to people constantly. I smile, I hug, I talk to strangers and not surprisingly I usually get back from them what I've given to them. Now, I could have evolved into an entirely different person, depending upon the roads I chose and the decisions I made. Intelligent design? Evolution? I am not confused at all about why I am who I am today. I do know I could have been someone altogether different. Is that true for you? Who might you have been with different choices? Are you the product of evolution, intelligent design or something else? Happy Saturday to you :)

Because everything that is complex, including Nature itself, was intelligently designed.

its not spores evolution its spore and ive got it. in it you evolve youre creature. the word evolve means adapting youre creature

Because the Discovery Institute, which invented intelligent design has been exposed as a lie factory.