[Strategerist]

Actually the author of the statement doesn't really understand ID either, amazingly.

ID is basically a religious bastardization of evolution, not merely a theory of creation.

[My2Cents]

ID is basically a religious bastardization of evolution, not merely a theory of creation.

Not really. To say that the complexity of the cell, or the complexity of information transfer in biological processes point not to some blind mechanism as Darwin suggests, but points to an intelligent designer, doesn't necessarily imply that that designer flung a single-cell into some slimepit eons ago, and that cell differentiated and ultimately became man. I can buy into the case made by intelligent design proponents, but from what I've read of ID, that doesn't compel me to say my ancestors rose up from the slimepit after God got the ball rolling. ID proponents accept the concept of micro evolution, but it doesn't necessarily become a rationale for macro evolution by another name.

[Itchy5]

There are 23 know species of elepahant in the fossil record. Only 2 remain today, the African and India variety. Personally, it sounds like tinkering to me. Intelligent design implies a "design" for 2 elephants. tinkering and experimentation sounds more like Darwin to me. That being said, until (if ever) humans can create a living organism out of atoms we won't ever really know how life started.

[sayfer bullets]

It is neither.