Here's wsomething to think about while you are waiting for ID to become a science. If variation anticipates or responds to need, this effect would be noticable long befre we isolate the molecular mechanisms responsible. Evolution was observed long before we had a theory of genes, and the behavior of genes was studied long before we knew about DNA.
ID is asserting a cause for a phenomenon that has been looked for for 150 years and never observed. Regardless of how you characterize it, you are talking about Lamarckian evolution.