What exactly is ID?

(It's the first time i propose a subject so please correct me if I do something wrong)I would like to know what is really ID.
By that, I mean for ID:
-what is the age of the earth?
-what did the designer create? (species? genus? familiy?)
-when did he create life?
-I would also like to know if possible, what are the observations that lead to your answers.Of course feel free to give more detail if you have them.
I ask because most IDers say ID is a theory so it would be nice to know what we are talking about before arguing about the evidence.
All talks about evidence or evolution (like ID says this because evo can't explain it) SHOULD BE TAKEN TO ANOTHER thread.

So, to you ID is just an idea? Not a theory? If it was a competing theory to evolution, shouldn't it answer the questions evolution does? At least part of them?

Yeah, I'm trying to work out the different positions of ID in this thread in order to make debates clearer in other threads without going off topic in those threads.

While it is what I think too, this thread is to give them a chance to prove me wrong.

In short, for you ID only says that there is an intelligent designer and biological life is only a mean to prove it, right? If that's the case, I don't see the point of an ID/Evolution debate since it seems the two don't even talk about the same thing. (off topic: evolution says nothing about the presence or absence of a designer, it just doesn't use it)

What I meant by that is: did he create species then they "micro evolved"? Or was it genus? If I'm not mistaken, they believe micro-evolution to be possible.
What I wanted was more like a rough "history of life" from an ID perspective, a bit like evolution does (afterall, they are competing theories,right?).
I intended to ask for more details about what ID says as the thread progressed but the only answer I got so far from an IDer was: ID is just an idea that doesn't really say anything apart from the fact that a designer exists.Edited by Son, : No reason given.

That sounds like Creationism. Are you sure you are talking about ID? Or do you think the two are in fact the same? And when I asked what The designer created, I meant, did he create all species as they are now or did he create genus then those evolved from there? (or something like that)

This thread is intended to be mainly descriptive, it's not really intended for debate. Discussion of evidence should be taken to another thread. I did that so that I could actually make it simple to have an answer about what is I.D. If we begin to discuss evidence without actually determining clearly what is I.D. first, I fear it will only muddle the issue.

While it is intersting, I would like the simple questions I asked in the OP to be answered. In short, I would like to have some kind of "rough history of life" from an ID perspective.(In fact you just answered the question : "What led you to believe ID to be true?")I will ask for more details on this after those 1st questions are answered. As for what led you to ID, I think you answered the question fully enough for the purpose of this thread.

I know you disagree stronly with Tradervew but this thread is intended to be mainly descriptive, debates should be taken to more appropriate threads (Like I said in the OP). I made this thread this way in order to have a straightforward answer about what is ID in as few posts as possible. Keep in mind that the post you answered to only responded to one of the questions I asked and I considered this question secondary. It shouldn't start long debates here or this thread will go way off its intended purpose.

First, I would like to point out that the messages you replied to in your two following messages were a bit off topic themselves and I would like those discussions taken in other threads in order to keep this one focused.I would like to know if for you, I.D. is some form of theistic evolutionism or something else. If it's something else, please spell out clearly what is the history of life from an I.D. perspective. I ask because I found the issues about I.D. to be quite blurred. As an example, you can see that in an earlier message, LucyTheApe disagreed with you on the issue of the age of the Earth while supposedly on the same side as you.

I was asking about your own opinion, I'm well aware that different Iders have different opinions although the different positions in I.D. don't seem to be very clear. As you know, I.D. is presented as a scientific alternative to Evolution that's why it gave me the impression that I.D. had a different history of life from Evo. I may be wrong and only the mechanisms between the two differs. If that is so, you still need to spell those out clearly.
Also, I would also like to know where different IDers all agree to give some kind central theory of ID.From what you told me so far, it seems to me that your version of ID is evolution + Intelligent Designer(theistic evolutionism). Meaning you don't disagree with what Evo says, just that they missed at least one mechanism(ID), is that right?

As I have already pointed out, those discussions should be taken to another thread to keep this one on topic.

Do you mean that for you, organisms micro evolve by themselves but that the intelligent designer intervene for macro evolution? By the way, how does the intelligent designer intervene? For example, where is he? How does he manipulate populations from where he is? Etc...

Discussion about information should be taken to a thread specifically to it I think since it seems such a source of great confusion and debate.