This is true of the ID movement, almost universally. And yet some will argue, accurately IMO, that the concept of “intelligent design” is independent of the truth of evolutionary theory. In fact, I would argue that this is obvious on any amount of reflection. Few detest the gods of our age more than I do, but it simply isn’t true that evolution has anything to say about whether a superintelligence oversees or meddles or guides it.
So, when we correctly identify something called “Intelligent Design” as a pathetic version of creationism, peddled by propagandists in Sunday Schools and championed by a clown car in the Pacific Northwest, without stipulating that we are referring to that corrupt “movement,” we run the risk of claiming or suggesting that beliefs or concepts of design, even “intelligent design,” are inherently anti-scientific or dishonest. I think that’s a mistake.