I think I myself could swing as either an evolutionist or as a believer in intelligent design, but I think believe more in the former and only consider the latter because frankly, it's a nice idea. I used to be pretty hardcore religious, but as ive grown into my own and been allowed to experience life without someone shoving me from one place to another, ie: my parents sending me to bible camp every summer, I think I've grown increasingly agnostic. I'm going to assume were referring to creationism by the christian beleifs, since that seems to be a topic the last few pages have been arguing about.

I think the old school belief that the earth is only 6,000 years old, or however young most creationists believe, is too far fetched and lacking in empirical evidence to be given any merit at all. I've heard all mannerisms of counter arguements from time is relative to the bible can't be interpretated literally, but in either case I think the arguements are weak. As far as Intelligent Design goes, I think that philospohy doesn't hold any more or less merit than any other belief, especially when you consider that life comes from life, so the idea that life just suddenly happened is a tad silly. 

 Of course there have been quiet a few expirments and theories purposed on this, such as in one instance (I'll look for the source, but I think i'm referring to the Miller-Urey Expirment) a researcher filled some kind of apparatus with elements likely found in earths early atmosphere such as Nitrogen, Hellium etc, and I can't remember if he passed electrical charges through the gases or not, but I remember the expirment started with these non-living elements, but by the end of the expirment he had created (very basic) amino acids found in living organisms, but of course even then the amino acids existed but weren't really part of some sort of organized structure found in living organisms. 

The jist of that is a researcher was able to create the building blocks of life (amino acids) using elements likely found in the early earth. Of course just making an amino acid is a long stretch away from a living organism, even a single celled organism, but the point is the building blocks of life were created from non-living elements found in the Earth's early atmosphere. So now where left with a handful of amino acids with no real purpose, when you consider that these building blocks were being created frequently over a prolonged course of history, and you consider chaos theory, then eventually given an infinite amount of time the amino acids could be arranged in a meaningful way, ie. the precursors to life. So either we got extremley lucky and these amino acids were able to organize into the foundation of a living organism or intelligent design is behind it all. I think as time progresses, more answers will become evident and we may very well discover how life came to be, but in the meantime I don't think either belief holds much more sway over the other.

But then you get into the entire "energy can neither be created nor destroyed' so where did energy come from? Could it just be a universal constant? The idea itself that energy could just exist in a matter of fact way is kind of jarring, almost as jarring as believing an outside entity created all of life. Of course this too may be explained in the future after we grow as a species. 

The jist of what I'm saying is that while I myself am an evolutionist, I don't see those believing in intelligent design as being uncredited. Intelligent design is a nice thing to believe in, since it's nice to believe we as a species have some purpose, but creationism is something I personally place absolutely no stock in. 

It's also interesting how no one believing in intelligent design has eluded to the possibility that maybe our species wasn't the 'chosen' species in the creators vision. It'd be kind of funny to see a person who believed in intelligent design and believed Dolphins or Aphids were the center of the universe. It's also funny that many who believe in Intelligent design believe that an omnipotent being would give a damn about us... haha.