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"Intelligent design claims that there is an intelligent designer but makes no attempt to identify it?"

Correct.

"Even evolution attempts to explain the origin of life down to the very beginning."

Also correct. However, the method by which life first occurred on earth is unimportant, only that life changed once it got here.

"But apparently ID isn't interested?"

Proponents of ID avoid identifying the intelligent designer(god or otherwise) as a way of keeping it scientifically acceptable:

"ID is an intellectual movement, and the Wedge strategy stops working when we are seen as just another way of packaging the Christian evangelical message."

- Phillip Johnson, co-founder of the Discovery Institute.

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Proponents of ID avoid identifying the intelligent designer(god or otherwise) as a way of keeping it scientifically acceptable...

Ignoring the biggest part of your theory is a strange way to make it acceptable. If we were talking about 'intelligent geography' you would be blanking out inconvenient parts of your maps and saying "Here be dragons."

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Proponents of ID avoid identifying the intelligent designer(god or otherwise) as a way of keeping it scientifically acceptable:

That's because "modern science" precludes the supernatural. It assumes a priori that there is nothing outside the natural. Hence it (modern science) presupposes the philosophy of materialism.