[HayekRocks]

I asked mr. Ignatz "what those first forms were, the mechanism by which they were produced, how the physical constants and laws were calculated, the means by which they were implemented, and the nature of the entity doing all of these things." He answered Heck, I have no idea.

Then I must ask, in what sense does Intelligent Design account for these things?

After all, if the athiest-type EVO's are right and the Christian ID'ers wrong, then so what?

What about the Christian evolutionists?

I would account it a waste if someone spent their life committed to an irrational and unscientific view of the world. It would make them confused and alienated from knowledge. Understanding oneself and where one came from is the deepest form of knowledge, do you not think?

[Ignatz]

Then I must ask, in what sense does Intelligent Design account for these things?

ID sez that those things are part of the design. The universe works the way it does because of the physical laws and constants (actually, the constants probably derive FROM the laws). Including creating the lightning that zapped your primordial soup and caused the WTBE dandelions to evolve.

I would account it a waste if someone spent their life committed to an irrational and unscientific view of the world. It would make them confused and alienated from knowledge. Understanding oneself and where one came from is the deepest form of knowledge, do you not think?

For the first part, you are assuming that anyone who has faith also has no thirst for scienctific knowledge. I am a network engineer, an amateur astronomer, and am constantly studying science of some type, and yet I can see the rationality of a designed universe. I am neither confused nor alienated.
For the second part, wouldn't it be a greater waste if, along with all of your pursuit of scientific knowledge and understanding about yourself, you neglected to pursue and understand the spiritual as well?