Question: Each of the following questions has a sentence/paragraph with one italicized word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the paragraph.
Intelligent design derives from an early 19th-century explanation of the natural world given by an English clergyman, William Paley. Paley was the populariser of the famous watchmaker analogy. Proponents of intelligent design are crupping Paley's argument with a new gloss from molecular biology.
Paley started it (the concept of intelligent design) in the 19th century. The proponents of it are ________ Paley’s argument. The word proponents directly controls the word in the blank.
Proponents destroying, questioning or even testing Paley’s concept is illogical.
Resurrect means to bring to view, attention, or use again; to raise from the dead.
Hence, the correct answer is option 3.