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ID is not different than creationism, it just uses different terminology with some additional quasi-scientific obfuscation. Consider the creationist textbook, Of Pandas and People:
Can you think of any other 2 intellectual theories where you could take a book written about one and do a global search-and-replace on a few key terms in order to yield a good launching point for a book about the second theory?
For an analogous case, consider Lee Smolin's "Life of the Cosmos" hypothesis. That posits natural selection between universes - and black holes as the birth canal for new universes.
That seems literally incredible - since black holes have no insides. However, the rest of the logic of Smolin's hypothesis does not depend critically on the origin of the new universes - so if you replace "black holes" with "basement universes" the hypothesis becomes much more credible.