But that is a subsidiary matter. It seems to me that the complexity, self-organization people could agree with your class 2 and not call it design. This in my view is the weakest link in Mike's argument.
Many evolutionists already acknowledge the existence of irreducibly complex systems.
The initial results seem to suggest that the answer is yes. Let's not defeat a straw man here. Gradualism is out in the complexity field. These people talk about emergence, systems reaching a critical point before the new complex thing suddenly appearing, etc. Class 2 does not equal design.