I don't think so. Hoyle has a purely scientific alternative "explanation" to part earthy evolution. ID, other than with the hand of man, ain't science beyond the big bang I don't think. Yes, OK it is a battle over semantics, which so often gets us bogged down when elucidating the competing arguments.
"The histone-4 case is in fact a case of Michael Behe's Irreducible Complexity long before Behe published his "Darwin's Black Box, since the hand-written version of Mathematics of Evolution was 'published' in 1987. Hoyle is an Intelligent Design Theorist 'avant-la-lettre'. What makes Hoyle different is that he doesn't talk about 'the supernatural' and the 3-letter word. Hoyle indignantly rejects Neo-Darwinists' "retreat in the unknowable and untestable" (p103), when they claim that histone-4 historically had a different function and so could evolve stepwise. Hoyle would be right if evolutionists just claimed it..." Gert Korthof, Darwinist.
I like Korthof, he's a pretty honest guy. Of course he lets his contempt for us dreaded "creationists" slip through now and again but overall he is a very smart and honest guy. If he could just get over the creationist thing. LOL