What type of evolution does it simulate? ID only argues against materialistic evolution- That of Darwin, Mayr, Dawkins and Coyne- ie mainstream evolution. The following is from Lenski:
Blockquote “At the other extreme, 50 populations evolved in an environment where only EQU was rewarded, and no simpler function yielded energy. We expected that EQU would evolve much less often because selection would not preserve the simpler functions that provide foundations to build more complex features. Indeed, none of these populations evolved EQU , a highly significant difference from the fraction that did so in the reward-all environment (P ~= 4.3 x 10-9, Fisher’s exact test).”