Yes. People often mistakenly believe science is in the business of determining The Truth. It is not. Rather, it is in the business of devising theories and models that can explain the observations that are made, and predict which observations will and will not be made in the future.
Now, it is tempting to conclude that the phenomenal successes achieved thru the scientific method are because it does determine The Truth regarding how the universe in which we exist objectively behaves. But that is a metaphysical position that cannot itself be judged scientifically.
Every living thing that has ever existed on earth could have been specially created by an omnipotent God who deliberately did so in a manner that would look convincingly as if they had all evolved from a common ancestor thru mutations, drift and natural selection.
Such a hypothesis makes no predictions on its own, besides those that are possible thru evolution, so is worthless as a scientific idea.
The problem is not that we are placing excessive demands on those who wish to argue that life was “designed.” Rather, the problem for these people is if we play by the rules by which every other scientific claim is judged, “design” just does not measure up.