Discovery Institute: Intelligent Design no theory, no content, no explanation

Talk show host and recent senior Discovery Institute fellow Michael Medved (apparently, November last year is so recent he’s not even listed on the DI website, yet)  has publicly announced what everybody already knew: Intelligent Design is neither a theory, nor an explanation. Q. Speaking of your desire for this kind of particularity, you are a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute that studies and believes in Intelligent Design. How do you, as an Orthodox Jew, reconcile with this kind of generality - with the view of their being a hierarchy with a chief "designer" - while believing in and praying to a very specific God?  A. The important thing about Intelligent Design is that it is not a theory - which is something I think they need to make more clear. Nor is Intelligent Design an explanation. Intelligent Design is a challenge. It’s a challenge to evolution. It does not replace evolution with something else. Q. The question is not whether it replaces...