who says the designer was or would even want to be omniscient?
In a word: Christians. ID is a Christian movement after all, and the Christian god is supposed to be omniscient. If IDers did not believe the designer to be an omniscient deity, the whole movement would never have got started in the first place.
seems that it would be mighty boring to pre-know all of eternal history.
Indeed. That's what you get for being omniscient.
The designer allowed (self implemented or otherwise) an environmental change for which the old design was now longer as good?
I refer back to the previous point: surely an omniscient designer would know in advance that this change would be implemented.
Like I said back in message 2, my impression is that the "hard core" of the ID movement are theistic evolutionists that accept the mainstream old Earth and the geologic record of what happened. But they pretty much refuse to come out and clearly say such. That gives such as the young Earth creationists (YEC) an opening to grasp onto ID, even though it may well give no real support to their YEC position. We have seen that YEC's are often willing grasp onto anything they perceive to be in any way anti-evolution.
This is all very interesting. Thanks for the info.
The designer could easily step in an tweak the process without leaving any trace.
I don't think that kind of rationalisation has ever helped humanity to understand the fabric of the universe.
(dinosaurs created for...) many millions of years worth of observation and entertainment?
Whose entertainment? Ours?
Edited by emr, : No reason given.