The core idea of ID as I know it {from not learning, but only hearing about it} is this: "Life's too complex to have begun spontaniously".
I know Evo doesn't deal with the origin of life, since it only deals with life changing and life does not come spontaniously from non-life. Evo doesn't deal with the start; it only kicks in when things get going. In the list of theories/hypotheses of how that proto-cell got together, ID is valid to some degree (assuming "the designer" made a very small bacterium, or a simple cell). It's actualy easier to believe than, say... "lightning causing molecules to bond togheter in the atmosphere, which then fell into the ocean and rolled around on the tidal shore for a while before becoming alive". It's also impossible to prove or find evidence of (which makes it very bad science).
The other ideas on the beginnings of life can be conceived through chemistry and biology, so they have a far better chance of being provable and accepted.
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