Is the explanation any more than just "evolution" did it"? Substitute your favorite word. A theory is just a general way of interpreting the evidence on a regular basis. The presence of organized matter and physical laws to governing it in predictable fashion can be explained by an almighty intelligence. It may be beyond proof, but then that's not what science is all about, is it?
Yes such as a specific explaination for the pattern of the fossil record, and a specific explaination for the geographical distribution of species. Its explaination for these things is a consequence of the mechanisms it proposes.
ID has no explainations for these things because it proposes no mechanisms which explainations could be based from. An Intelligent Designer could create species in any order at any time and at any place. So ID does not expect a specific order, or fossil record pattern, so it cannot explain the specific order that we see today.
This is the difference between evolution and ID which I am talking about.
Substitute your favorite word. A theory is just a general way of interpreting the evidence on a regular basis.
Nope a theory is a well tested explaination for a phenomenon. If the explaination is not well tested then it is just a hypothesis. If an explaination cannot be tested at all then it isn't even a valid hypothesis in science.
The presence of organized matter and physical laws to governing it in predictable fashion can be explained by an almighty intelligence.
Yep but that cannot be tested so you know what that means. The problem is that the presence of anything can be explained by an almighty intelligence.
Organised matter and physical laws to govern it in a predictable fashion can also be explained as a computer simulation which we are all plugged into. But like ID that explaination has no explainatory power either, as it fits anything. So it's no suprise that both would fit this specific case.