Intelligent design vs evolution

This is a well argued topic and I think it important to state one's terms of reference and why. In other words; are we talking of an intelligent being actually creating the Earth, our solar system and the rest of the universe? (and if so how did that being come to being?) Are we talking of a powerful, intelligent being creating the appearance of the world we know on a planet that happens to exist? (as Aslan did in Narnia or did he actually create the world, I never thought so, I thought he just created Narnia ie. the plants, animals etc.) Or are we talking about an extra terrestial intelligent being creating Man on a planet already populated with plants, animals etc.? Definitions from Wiki then:

Intelligent design
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History of creationismCreation in GenesisGenesis as an allegory
Types of creationism:Creation scienceIntelligent designIslamic creationismModern geocentrismNeo-CreationismOmphalos creationismOld Earth creationismProgressive creationismTheistic evolutionYoung Earth creationism
Controversy:Creation vs. evolution... in public educationAssociated articlesTeach the Controversy

Intelligent design (ID) is the concept that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection."[1][2][3] Its leading proponents are all affiliated with the Discovery Institute.[4][5][6][7][8][9] They say that intelligent design is a scientific theory that stands on equal footing with, or is superior to, current scientific theories regarding the evolution and origin of life.[10]

Which is not to be confused with: Creationism
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"Creationism" can also refer to origin beliefs in general, or to an alternative of traducianism.

In many religious traditions, creationism is ideological support of the belief that humanity, life, the Earth, or the universe as a whole was specially created by a supreme being (often referred to specifically as God[1]) or by other forms of supernatural intervention. In other common definitions, it is referred to more precisely as the belief in a literal interpretation of specific religious works referring to God creating the universe.[2][3] This divine intervention may be seen either as an act of creation from nothing (ex nihilo) or the (re)-emergence of order from pre-existing chaos (demiurge).

Evolution
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This article is about evolution in biology. For other uses, see Evolution (disambiguation).

In 1832, while travelling on the Voyage of the Beagle, naturalist Charles Darwin collected giant fossils in South America. On his return, he was informed in 1837 by Richard Owen that fragments of armour were from the gigantic extinct glyptodons, creatures related to the modern armadillos he had seen living nearby. The similarities between these two unusually scaly animals and their geographic distribution provided Darwin with a clue that helped him develop his theory of how evolution occurs.[1]
In biology, evolution is the change in the heritable traits of a population over successive generations, as determined by shifts in the allele frequencies of genes. Over time, this process can result in speciation, the development of new species from existing ones. All contemporary organisms are related to each other through common descent, the products of cumulative evolutionary changes over billions of years. Evolution is thus the source of the vast diversity of life on Earth, including the many extinct species attested to in the fossil record.[2][3]

Which should not be confused with the Big Bang
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According to the Big Bang, the universe emerged from an extremely dense and hot state (bottom). Since then, space itself has expanded with the passage of time, carrying the galaxies with it.
In physical cosmology, the Big Bang is the scientific theory that the universe emerged from a tremendously dense and hot state about 13.7 billion years ago. The theory is based on the observations indicating the expansion of space (in accord with the Robertson-Walker model of general relativity) as indicated by the Hubble redshift of distant galaxies taken together with the cosmological principle.
Extrapolated into the past, these observations show that the universe has expanded from a state in which all the matter and energy in the universe was at an immense temperature and density. Physicists do not widely agree on what happened before this, although general relativity predicts a gravitational singularity (for reporting on some of the more notable speculation on this issue, see cosmogony).

Geddit?

We can actually view the Earth changing and taking shape now - click on the picture below to take you to the source: raincoaster's blog with more details of this happening.

So is this an indication of evolution and the power of the natural world happening? Or we in fact a science project in the bedroom cupboard of a deity?