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Ultimately though, ID has it backwards and paints itself into a corner. If everything is "too complex" and/or "too improbable" to have occured naturally and therefore must have been designed, then the designer itself (whatever it is) must have also been designed. Thus ID solves nothing.

ID does not presume to draw conclusions about the nature or origin of the designer, it merely states that the universe exhibits the presence of design. (We can logically assume that the Great Pyramids are the product of design without knowing anything about the designer) Such questions are the domain of religion and philosophy.

Okay, lets play pretend. What would be the material taught in science class when the topic of ID came up?

"Now class, we going to learn about Intelligent Design. We live in a complex universe... so complex that we don't fully understand it yet. Therefore it must have been created by a designer. But we don't know anything about the designer. That concludes out lesson on Intelligent Design,"