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Evolution and intelligent design are compatible, as long as you don't take the Bible too literally. In the Bible, God created the world in 7 days. The number 7 has a whole lot of religious symbolism, and the Bible was written (and edited) by humans, not God. So let's stretch these 7 days out into 30 million years (or whatever the current estimate of Earth's age is).

Now during these "7 days", evolution occurs, and the animals, birds, trees, lambs and sloths, and carp and anchovies, and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit-bats etc. come into being, with humans showing up eventually. Who is to say that this process is not all part of God's will? Maybe God likes to tweak things, tries beta releases, and mixes things up to see what works best.

Scientists can be godless heathens, but maybe they are just uncovering God's design. The religious leaders get offended by this, because every discovery made by the godless heathen scientists reduces their power (which is the point of all organized religion, don't let anyone tell you otherwise). Maybe the scientists are just filling in and correcting the Bible's holes.

My biggest problem with ID, is that it seems like a very human-centric approach. It just reeks of the whole "Earth is the center of the universe" crap. Evolution at least looks into the developement of other species, and doesn't make the case that everything leads to the creation of homo sapiens.

Edit-> basically what KafirChobee said