You’re starting too late with your premise.
You’ve got to go back. Way, way back.
Now go back infinitely further.
Where did any of it come from?
The answer to that worldview, that article of faith, will color all further premises.
Atheism is a religion, it’s just anti-God.
Micro-evolution is merely projection of bigger more specious leaps of anti-Creationism. Many critters develop. But a caterpillar doesn’t evolve into a butterfly. Humans develop callouses if they work with their hands a lot. Starfish regenerate organs. Like beget like.
I recall hearing of a case of moth ‘microevolution’ based on fraudulent statistical analysis.
Too many are devout in their efforts to debunk God, even if they use antiscientific dishonesty to plot the points on the curve they like best.
Like beget like.
OK, so you refuse to acknowledge even micro-evolution, within species. Then your calls for what’s scientific or not fall apart pretty quickly; any serious ID advocate will at least admit that micro-evolution exists and is a scientific fact.
And to date, I have yet to see any ID proponent provide ANY factual data regarding ID.
So we have at least a testable, provable theory in micro-evolution, and at least a reasonable expansion to macro-level.
ID has a conjecture that is neither falsifiable, nor has any facts to even form a basis for a hypothesis. Meaning it has zero basis in science.
What a waste of time studying evolution is, all over a THEORY.