"ID's real rival is the
blind watchmaker mechanism that is believed to be behind most/all
of evolution (the only other "designer" besides an intelligent agent)."
HVT:
Phil Johnson's term "blind watchmaker mechanism" applies to a view that
could be held only by a person committted to the worldview of Naturalism.
Such a view admits no contribution of purposeful divine intention or
conceptualization.
In contrast, the Fully Gifted Creation perspective entails the necessity of
purposeful divine intention and conceptualization in order that there be a
universe with a formational economy sufficiently robust to make something
as remarkable as evolution possible. Given this high view of the Creation's
God-given formational capabilities, there is no need for occasional
episodes of form-imposing intervention.
Thus, ID (the Johnson et al form-imposing interventionist type) does have
another rival -- a fully theistic worldview that has a high view of the
Creation's formational capabilities.
Howard Van Till