[Squawk 8888]

No, ID is a religious belief masquerading as science while a belief that evolution is Theistically guided need not carry the pretence. The key is that an honest person would not pretend that science is a valid tool for proving or disproving the existence of a creator.

[sickoflibs]

I agree with you on everything you said. I was thinking of this white paper below that cits the Demski design detection and then cites opinion polls that claim that 70% of public believes in ID. He does that by claiming that ID is consistent with theistic evolution. But later he says design detection proves macro-evolution is impossible. It’s a moving target, something you can do if you just want to make stuff up for “heads-I win, tails you lose “arguments.

:: Intelligent Design: The Scientific Alternative to Evolution, by William S. Harris, Ph.D. and John H. Calvert, J.D. (National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Autumn 2003).

http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/NCBQ3_3HarrisCalvert.pdf