Where in either theory is there anything that precludes the other?
ID speculates about the origin of life. Evolution speculates about how it behaves in response to environmental changes.
I can find nothing in the theory of evolution that says in cannot be by design, and nothing in the theory of intelligent design that says it cannot have been designed to evolve.
The entire debate appears to be an exercise in abusing and misrepresenting both theories as proxies over differences of opinion about something else.
Yeah, it would be nice if people would distinguish between naturalism, abiogensis, common origin on one hand, and young-earth creationism, creationism, and intelligent design on the other...and not conflate them so often.
But the kid in the article does seem to want to conflate everything into the good-progressive-smart-evolution-progress-science-naturalism bucket and the old-fashion-witch-burning-backward-flat-earth-creationist-dummy bucket.
There are plenty of counter parts on the other side of the debate as well. Sigh.
In my view, the scientific questions are not as important as the cosmology and theology, but I will agree that the distinctions should be made about which are meant when talking about them.