"Intelligent design doesn't necessarily displace evolution. Also, it's a question of opinion, not really one of pure science."
It is NOT opinion! Where do all you people get this notion that science is a democracy? Science is DICTATED by the facts. If science tells us evolution is the best explanation for the diversity of life, then that is the end of the conversation. No matter how many accountants or musicians think general relativity should be repealled changes absolutely NOTHING. It just means the general public needs a better education on science.
What I'm saying is that intelligent design - that the origin of life cam from God - is a matter of opinion. The evolutionary process isn't, at least as far as it has been researched. It's a process.
Are you joking?
What's the best explanation for general relativity? IOW, what drives the objective reality around which the theory has been formed? How much faith should we place in the tools we have for observing the universe, or do the tools themselves establish objective reality? How does self-consciousness fit into the Theory of Evolution? How does the Theory of Evolution account for the meaningful organization of information, i.e. what drives the particles of the universe into such patterns that they can be perceived by human senses?