The problem is when I suggest an alternative hypothesis:
your socks are being misplaced in the house.
Your evidence supports my hypothesis as well, but I can design an experiment to provide evidence towards mine that discredits yours if I place tracking devices on all the socks.
The idea that a single intelligent designer created all life in the universe is indeed a rather strong, and somewhat absurd claim.
The idea that much of life in the universe was created by intelligence is not anywhere near as strong a claim, and is much less absurd. In fact, if you believe that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe at all, and you don't believe that it's possible that life on Earth was IDed at some point, I'd go so far as to call you a hypocrite.
Back to the sock metaphor, you must construct an idea of what the fossil record would look like for ID, and what it would look like for evolution. Specifically, how they would look different.
I propose ID would produce evidence that looks like stochastic evolutionary events. We have some of those in the fossil record. That doesn't prove that life was IDed, but it sure makes it look less absurd, doesn't it.
Just so long as you don't believe that the Earth is less than 50 000 years old, you're all right in my book XD
