‘Who is correct concerning the ultimate “whys” of creation actually doesn’t matter in science.’
True, but I did think of one other interesting issue this morning.
ID is frequently conflated with Christian theology. If one ignores (for the moment) Christianity, but posits ID, there is quite a pause between the creation of the Universe 13.7 billion years ago and the creation of life approximately 2 billion years ago (not to mention another big gap until potential worshipers a few million years ago). Cosmology, geology and paleontology all point to that timeline being generally correct.
So, if the Creator and the Designer were the same, what was it doing for the 10.3 billion years in between?
Haha, arithmetic correction - make that ‘11.7 billion years in between’. Sorry.