[bobdsmith]

Evolution - explains the diversity of life

Heliocentric theory - explains the motions of the planets

Germ theory - explains the cause of disease

Atomic theory - explains the nature of matter

Plate Techtonics - explains continental drift

I threw the word "thorough" in there to distinguish between hypothese and theories. Both are explainations, but theories are better.

ID - explains what? Most of the time it simply claims to be able to detect design which isn't an explaination for anything. When it does claim that a certain system is better explained as designed - that is a hypothesis.

[bvw]

The basis of Goedel's theorem, Turing machines etc -- all math and science in ordered sets of symbols as expressions of reality can only at best express tautologies such as you complained that ID makes. Pure designer-free evolution has a tautology of the same degree.

In any case "truth" beyond mere tautological symbol-string completions is outside scientific limits to determine. It is a spiritual sensation.

[Fester Chugabrew]

ID - explains what?

The organization of matter that behaves under predictable laws.