[ml1954]

ID in a nutshell (a short, and certainly incomplete list):

- ID is and is not about religion
- The IDer may or may not be dead
- The IDer may or may not be a God of some kind (maybe there are multiple IDer Gods)
- If the IDer is not a god or gods it/they may be space aliens or time traveling humans
- ID addresses the origins of life: that is, the IDer(s) didit
- ID addresses origin of species: that is, the IDer(s) didit
- ID cannot be tested
- ID makes no falsifiable assertions about anything
- ID makes no predictions about future discoveries. It cannot predict anything.
- ID is useless other than as philosophy. And it really doesn't do much philosophizing either.

[Enduring Freedom]

ID'ers can believe in evolution as the process by which life forms expanded over the earth over time.

Evolution does not explain how life began.

So ID can encompass evolution.

Evolution, however, cannot encompass ID.

In any case, never has life been demonstrated to arise from non-life.

Many evolutionists believe in Panspermia, that life arose from other planets - a cheap trick to shift the problem and hope it goes away.

ID'ers don't need such cheap tricks.

Until such time as life is replicated, be open-minded sufficiently to acknowledge that fundamental, and not insignificant fact.