What is an ID proponent's basis of comparison? (edited)

see Distinguishing "designs" for more details.But the 'designs' we see in nature (the dog for one) do NOT look like things that we know are designed by the only intelligence we have at hand to study.It is looking at them that tells us that based on everything we know they (flagella etc.) are NOT designed.

"Moving the goalposts" is a debate tactic that is not intellectually honest.It means that a debater may issue a challenge, e.g.,"Show me a case where a new species has been seen to arise."This is shown and the debater replies with:
"Ah, but that is still a dog/rat/worm or whatever." They are now asking for something at a higher taxon than species.In other words the original requirement is met and instead of acknowledging that the debater "moves the goal posts" to some other requirement. This is a very common practice in the evolution vs creation debate by the creationists.It is intellectually dishonest.