A complete and utter falsehood which means the author is mis-informed or a liar.
Nope, it's accurate. If you believe otherwise, a) you're wrong, and b) you're obviously not very familiar with the scientific community. I am, and can state with assurance that the author's comment is right on the money.
Note: He's talking about "intelligent design" as an alleged theory or field of science, not about the notion that a deity may have been intelligently involved in the formation of the Universe in some way. The former is indeed almost universally rejected as pseudoscience by the scientific community. The latter is quite popular, but that's not the subject of the author's essay.
Sorry, don't really have time for you atheists. Didn't read your stupid post Ich.