My largest criticism of David (and ID as a whole) is that they are looking at life as it is now and positing that earliest life had to be at minimum, as complex as what we see now. Ignored, are arguments that suggest that life at the beginning barely resembled the general processes we see now. I've said it before but not this explicitly: I don't think you'll figure out the origin of life by studying life. -So what do we study? We only know the life we know. Life comes from life in our experience. Interested folks have imagined tinier organisms less complex that the existing ones, but it is still based on the paterns we see. Some form of genetics with imbedded information to control and run the mechanisms of life. By definition life is made of organic molecules that can create energy to allow reproduction, by absorbtion of extracellar material. I think your point is specious.