Abstract
Is plagiarism a form of intelligent design (I.D.)? We think of intelligent design in terms of God and creation, but in generic terms, I.D. only refers to purposeful, designed action by an agent - viz., any agent, large or small, good or evil. A planned murder, for instance, can be an evil form of intelligent design. A forensic team can use design detection techniques to ferret out the evidence of death by murder over death by natural causes. In the same way, an attorney general can determine, using design detection techniques, whether an ad campaign broke copyright laws, and a professor can discern whether a student borrowed someone else's material to write a term paper.