Remove intelligent design and replace it with “climate change”, creationism with “global warming”...
If no designer is mentioned in Intelligent Design, I don't think you are required to go with God/creationism. Didn't Fred Hoyle come out with his hypothesis of panspermia sometime in the mid-70's? (If my memory serves me well.)
Hoyle and his fellow researcher Chandra something (can't remember and can't spell it) said that life forms, or complex organic (carbon-bearing) molecules, coming into the earth's atmosphere from comets, asteroids, planetoids, whatever, would provide the genetic Leg-O's necessary for macroevolution, which requires myriads of innovations which can't be otherwise accounted for in a mere geologic ages.
Hoyle did not propose "God" but there certainly lurks an 'unknown x" since he does not propose any kind of formula for the initial abiogenesis, which he assumes happened, but thought so vanishingly rare that it would necessarily take place outside of a strictly terrestrial time-frame.
However, EVERY “science” book on Darwin/evolution uses “Nature selected” or “the body evolved this” to “do that” because “it was more efficient” “it was faster” “it needed to see better” “proto-whale (a bear-like creature) needed to lose its legs so it could swim faster” “it moved its nostrils up to breathe easier” ....
Yet there is NO “intelligent designer” allowed in their myth?
What is harder to believe? 37.2 trillion cells in 9 billion human bodies - all working together to live in near-perfect cooperation next to each other by 10^16 “natural random accidents”?
Or one miracle?