I am not smart enough to understand the question for sure, but I will answer this which may not be what you are looking for.
1) First, let me insist that at present, we have no scientific definitionfor intelligence, the I in ID. The dictionary is little help with explanations like "good mental capacity."
2) The ID people may fight back on (1), and I wish they would, but in an scientific discussion, intelligence needs more than a vague dictionary meaning anyway, it DEMANDS a measurable quality of some sort, and even in the humanity of psychology, IQ is considered merely an aptitute for academics.
3) Without such as definition, I have avoided even talking about the subject of ID, certain that it attractst he least scientific posters here.
4) If this is on target, that is, about your posted inquiry, I would suggest that what intelligence is, may be defined as, is the utilization of human thinking which accurately parallels the reality that exists beyond our mind. I would clarify further in saying that we are actually a mind, the software operating system to the hardware of the physical brain. Locked in the darkness of this "box," our skull, we decode binary inputs from seven major sensory sources. The data obtained is used early on to experiment with the external world in order to collaterate what the internal activity has hypothesized, then theorized as real, then established firmly as Laws about this external Universe beyond our mind.
We can not infer that anything outside is intelligent, and we can only subjective acknowledge from our own success in living in the vast external world in a satisfactory way, that WE are intelligent.
One other seemingly unavoidable observation appears to be, that the world (beyond the darkness in his box where we actually live), is orderly and patterned. In this it seems only a rational conclusion that we are equiped with a software program idea to image whatever it is that is out there, and that what is out there makes no statement concerning how it got there, only that it is imaginable in here,... or...
And God, (The Universal Force, the Macrocosmos), said, Let us, (the Natural Laws), make man (his mind as a microcosmos reflection of the Universe, in our image, after our orderly organization): and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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