In what way does ID equate with Creationism? First define both, then state the correlation.
ID arose as a way to circumvent the Supreme Court decision Edwards v. Aguillard which banned the mentioning of deities in teaching of secular issues.
The creationist text book Of Pandas and People which was being written at the time of the trial subsequently underwent CTRL-H editing to exchange “creator” for “designer,” leading to the hilarious chimera “cdesign proponentsists.”
The people endorsing creationism and ID are more or less the same. By far, most types of argument put forth by IDists have previously been used by creationists. “Irreducible complexity” is merely a restating of Paley’s Watch or, indeed, Darwin’s own rhetorical reservations regarding the complexity of the eye.
Further, the vast majority of IDists have explicit religious motivation (pdf) for their viewpoints, and the ID community uses the same tactics of quotemining, making lists of non-biologist skeptics, and appeals to authority.
Finally, the leading ID “think”-tank, the Discovery Institute, has stated its ultimate goal in an internal workpaper, The Wedge:
“To defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural, and political legacies”
“To replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God”
Why? What’s wrong with an experience happening in another way than you imagine? This more than anything cries “crackpot” to me; the uncompromising attitude that your opponents’ view must lead to absurdities. Like Christians arguing that without souls, atheists should go on killing sprees all the time.