[truthfinder9]

To the best of my knowledge, ID asserts that some unspecified entity or entities, having unspecified capabilities and limitations, did some unspecified thing or things at unspecified times and places, for unspecified reasons, using unspecified methods.

If that is the "best" of your "knowledge," trying doing some research, the scientists over at the RTB think tank have postulated a testable design model that specifies those things, see:

Creation As Science: A Testable Model Approach to End the Creation/evolution Wars

http://www.amazon.com/Creation-As-Science-Testable-evolution/dp/1576835782/

and:

Origins of Life: Biblical and Evolutionary Models Face Off

http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Life-Biblical-Evolutionary-Models/dp/1576833445/

Evolution has completely failed to describe or explain the initial origin of life. Kind of undermines the whole theory deosn't it?

And another problem evolution consistently fails at explaining, is man's origin:

Who Was Adam?: A Creation Model Approach to the Origin of Man

http://www.amazon.com/Who-Was-Adam-Creation-Approach/dp/1576835774/

[Coyoteman]

Evolution has completely failed to describe or explain the initial origin of life. Kind of undermines the whole theory deosn't it?

No. And you know better than to ask such a silly question.

Evolution deals with changes in the genome since the origin of life.

Here are five hypothesis regarding the origin of the first life forms.

a) Natural processes occuring entirely upon earth resulted in chains of self-replicating molecular strands that eventually became the first life forms.

b) Aliens from another planet and/or dimension travelled to this planet and -- deliberately or accidentally -- seeded the planet with the first life forms.

c) In the future, humans will develop a means to travel back in time. They will use this technology to plant the first life forms in Earth's past, making the existence of life a causality loop.

d) A divine agent of unspecified nature zap-poofed the first life forms into existence.

e) Any method other than the four described above led to the existence of the first life forms. Source

Evolution (change in the genome) works just fine with any of these.

[js1138]

I haven’t been able to find a summary of the argument proposed in your creation as science book. Perhaps you would be kind enough to give us the argument in your own words.