If you will see "natural selection" as an organizing principle (an "intelligence"), then you will see that "mutation and survival advantage" was the explanatory key.
As I've pointed out about Behe's criticism, it says that the complexity is too great to be overcome by that slow, slow process in the time available since the theorized birth of the earth.
Some other organizing principle or an adaptation of this one (natural selection) must be found.
How about something to do with the "awareness" of life? We could hypothesize "awareness selection" instead of "natural selection."
Behe can claim that all he wants, but until he can actually demonstrate it, he's just hand-waving.
Meanwhile, when rates of evolution versus the historical record *have* been compared in countless different studies, in scores of different ways, they've been found to be in good accord.
"Must be"? Now *that's* dogmatism.
How about something to do with the "awareness" of life? We could hypothesize "awareness selection" instead of "natural selection."
You can hypothesize anything you like, including Invisible Pink Unicorns(tm).
And so far, all "ID" has is the hypothesis, and some fallacious attacks on evolutionary biology, and a whole boatload of propaganda and PR.