However, evolutionary theory also predicts that certain things do not happen. What are the falsifying criteria for ID? What would ID claim cannot happen if the Designer wished it to be?
At any rate and as I can recall as it has been awhile, the Republican primary initiative was a space-based platform to intercept ICBMs. The most cost effective solution was brilliant pebbles to detonate incoming in the range after lift off and before approach to avoid civilian collateral damage. The Democrats, to try to make the system totally unachievable, insisted on the most unlikely and costly approach of "shooting a bullet at an incoming bullet". All of this because of the fear of space-based defense and mutually assured destruction (also a Democrat policy).
Thus we do not have a national missile defense though we do have the regional ability to shoot a missile down with another missile (not totally effective). Israel's arrow system (funded in part by us during Clinton's years) was the first "national" missile defense - but only so because of the size of their nation.
At any rate, the politicians are more concerned about these sweeping issues - I doubt many of them have much interest in the details.