Whether they call themselves Creationists or proponents of Intelligent Design, the people doing so confuse a spiritual explication of reality with a physical description. By doing so they miss both the point and the beauty of the spiritual reality being described and made transparent to the rest of us.
No matter what they say to confuse the issue Creationists (and by this I also include proponents of Intelligent Design), really want the description of the beginning of the universe written in Genesis to be an actual physical and biological fact. Of course, that they want this to be true demonstrates their ignorance of science and their fear of modernity. But it also illuminates their spiritual ignorance. The author(s)of Genesis (and it doesn't matter if it was Moses or not) was not trying to describe anything in the physical world. They were extraplolating the discovery that God is a God of righteousness and justice (something discovered in the present) back into history.
When the tribes that became Israel discovered Yahweh, they lived in a Near East populated with societies which were constituted under what Eric Voegelin has called the "cosmological myth." The cosmological myth made society an analog to the cosmos. A king on earth analogous to the king of the gods (like Zeus). The gods were concerned with fertility and weather and human beings existed for the pleasure of the gods just as the lesser of society existed for the benefit and pleasure of the greater (maybe Bush is channeling some Babylonian king).
Into this world, someone (perhaps Moses) had a revelatory exprience. God was not a god of making sure the crops grow and the river doesn't flood and of other natural phenomena and was not the God of the status quo. God was a god of justice and righteousness. This discovery caused the people who made it to rethink their own history. If the world wasn't the world of the cosmological myth what kind of world was it? What kind of world would a god of righteousness and justice create?
Hence, the two different creation stories in Genesis. That people want to make this into a description of how salamanders were created amazes me.
When spiritual truth is deformed into physical descriptions, ideology is created. Then the question to ask is this: why do the proponents of Creationism want to deform their own religious writings by claiming that the Bible is literal description? Because they are not interested in truth but in power. Not just power over who gets federal money but power over who defines reality. It's because the radical religious right in America has betrayed the Jesus who rejected the devil's three temptations and replaced that with the Jesus of Revelation who comes to kill all those who don't think and act the right way. We live in a time in need of a new revelation because the current reality is deformed. But that's for another blog.