Seeding from another planet is a possibility. It is also possible that the other planet developed through purely materialistic evolution thus it would be ID without any God or creator or "space alien". There is no requirement for ID to name a creator because their may be no creator. There is proof our planet is seeded with meteors so the concept of a life form being injected into our system is a real possibility.
ID is being used by lots of people for lots of reasons but the core of the concept is their may be organic complexities that could not have evolved into existence. Creationists use it for there agenda - Neo-Darwinists/Materialists use it for there agenda - but all it really is is a possibility. Maybe someday this possibility will develop into a peer-reviewed scientific theory - maybe not. Introducing students to possibilities fosters free thinking and free thinking fosters innovation. I feel students should be presented with this possibility - but unfortunately that is not what the Dover school board was doing.
"Seeding from another planet is a possibility. It is also possible that the other planet developed through purely materialistic evolution thus it would be ID without any God or creator or "space alien". There is no requirement for ID to name a creator because their may be no creator. There is proof our planet is seeded with meteors so the concept of a life form being injected into our system is a real possibility."
Do you not see that this begs the question? There cannot be ID without the I. A process of Abiogenesis and subsequent Evolution has no I. To be ID there has to be an INTELLIGENT DESIGNER. Any other naturally produced intelligent being cannot be the designer, because of the trail of "who designed that designer"? The only possibility is a supernatural all powerful being - God. None other makes any sense.
If I'm missing something, enlighten me.