Intelligent Design Rules Out God's Sovereignty Over Chance

Practitioners of the "intelligent design" brand of creationism, much like Molière’s Physician in Spite of Himself, not only belie the true nature of their avocation and motives, but also play fast and loose with a commonly held precept.  They tacitly negate the clear and completely traditional parameters that illuminate the position of chance occurrence in our universe.

As a consequence, creationism's familiar yet totally unscriptural chimera of "accidental evolution" now lives on as the centerpiece and all-around bogeyman of intelligent design.  The results of this legacy could not be sharper.  Chance occurrence (randomness), whether guided or not, can be incremental, hence fully evolutionary.  Design is all at once or not at all, with only minor variability possible.  Perhaps it's time for advocates of this limiting position to go back to square one.