智能设计论（英语：Intelligent design，简称智设论、ID）是一个有争议性的论点，认为“宇宙和生物的某些特性用智能原因可以更好地解释，而不是来自无方向的自然选择”。这一假说的主要支持者包括发现研究院等基督教智囊团体，他们认为智能设计假说是同等重要的科学理论，甚至比现有科学理论对生命起源问题的解释更加合理，但是也有人认为这是一种伪科学的思想。目前只有自然选择可解释物种的起源，因此科学界并没有把智能设计放在解释物种起源的理论里面。另外智能设计论者曾在美国以创造论的名目来出版相同内容的书籍。

Intelligent design (ID) is the pseudoscientific view that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection." Educators, philosophers, and the scientific community have demonstrated that ID is a religious argument, a form of creationism which lacks empirical support and offers no testable or tenable hypotheses. Proponents argue that it is "an evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins" that challenges the methodological naturalism inherent in modern science, while conceding that they have yet to produce a scientific theory. The leading proponents of ID are associated with the Discovery Institute, a politically conservative think tank based in the United States. Although they state that ID is not creationism and deliberately avoid assigning a personality to the designer, many of these proponents express belief that the designer is the Christian deity.