Evolution by Natural Selection offers predictive and explanatory power. In order for an idea to be considered scientific, and especially to be a theory, it must do this. From what I understand, ID does not do this.
Can someone explain to me what predictions and explanations ID offers?
For example, how does ID account for the barrier between supposed Macro and Micro evolution? If things change, and we know they change, what mechanism prevents those changes from resulting in new "kinds" over time? There must be some mechanism preventing these changes from stacking up to the point where an Ape becomes a Man.
What can I learn about the future from ID? Will it help me create new drugs because I understand the above limitation? Can I plan how to cycle antibiotics around the imposed limitations of different kinds of bacteria?
Where are the lines between kinds? At what objective boundary can we place the barrier between kinds?
These seem like fundamental questions for ID to answer if it makes the assertion that life can change as we observe but that it can't change on the macro scale. After all, changes on the small scale piling up to create larger scale changes would be the base assumption given that life changes at all.
Can someone more versed in ID theory speak to my points?
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