***Any system of thought that denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science.” ***
I wonder if the Smithsonian has a posting in its personnel office that reads "no discrimination on race, religion, etc." per the government requirement of every other employer.
Some post those things, but don't really mean them.
IMHO, there should be no ideological presupposition in a scientific investigation Nor should the gatekeepers force ideology on the evaluation of the results. If science would use Bohr's bar for an epistemic cut, we wouldn't be having this never-ending battle concerning intelligent design.
Both practices are also an affront to the First Amendment as xzins suggests - on the one hand establishing a religion - and on the other hand, preventing the free exercise of religion. Based on the current application of Lemon in public venues and the 7th ruling on atheism being religion, the Supreme Court is effectively establishing atheism as the state religion while preventing theism to be spoken in public.