It most certainly does. ID asserts that things like malaria and E.coli are specific creations that could not have arisen without being designed and created by the designer.
These two examples are specifically cited by Behe in his latest book, and Behe is the only ID proponent currently testifying for the ID side. Behe was used as an expert witness in the recent california textbook case, defending the use of books supplied by Bob Jones University.
[[It most certainly does. ID asserts that things like malaria and E.coli are specific creations that could not have arisen without being designed and created by the designer.]
Those two examples are indeed cited, however, As far as I know, Behe simpyl states that they are IC, not that “The designer’ designed them- Nor does Behe make any mention in his books that I know of that states the original intents of both those bacteria and virus- As I mentioned both htose were benign before we invited sin into our lives- the original intent was not for causing disease as there woudl have been nho disease in God’s original intent for creation.
Have you read any of those think tank links I gave? If you go to the second link, and click on the first one (I think it’s called godevil.htm, Glen delves into the issues of evil and why God allows it- He does perhaps the best job of explaining that I’ve seen- To assert that God is evil for creating E.Coli, you have to know the mind of God and have to know every reason, argument etc that is involved in the keeping of Humanity under both a Holy universe, and one that allows evil. Note Glen’s response to a very similar accusation as you made: [[On (2), you assert that the divine judgments were/are ‘senseless’. This, of course, is a rather absolute statement of knowledge! Granted that you have been thinking about this for 40 years, I strongly suspect that God may actually have data / arguments / reasons that you haven’t had access to or have considered objectively. For you to asset that the judgments are ‘senseless’ MUST be restated more accurately as ‘I cannot see any sense in the divine judgments’—this is a huge difference and one MUCH MORE IN KEEPING with the limited epistemic faculties of humanity!]] (The rest of that exchange has more valuable explanations down furhter in the page- but let’s be careful and intellectually honest in how we word our objections)
I touch on the issue briefly on my site here: http://sacredscoop.com/?p=755