When one's only guide is internal, the propensity for ad hoc modifications is increased. The biblical texts make a reasonable starting point and a fine anchor. The best science takes place when order and design are assumed from the get go. The biblical texts do not originate within the observer but come from the outside, stating in general terms where this creation came from and why. Positive statements, wherever they originate, are not neutral. They are objects for human intellect to apprehend, evaluate, and then either accept or reject.
Lo and behold, not only do we have a text from the outside that positively asserts intelligent design, but we also have data to fit the scientific model of intelligent design very well, for science must deal with intelligible phenomena. Only some kind of internal darkness would attempt to explain intelligent design away. That idea is not at all supported from the outside, except perhaps in some remote corner of the universe where there is no intelligible matter or process.
The only answer proponents of non-intelligent non-design can proffer against a reliance upon the external biblical texts is scorn and ridicule, as often demonstrated in these threads. "What do the words of a bunch of goat herders have to do with science?" In truth, the scientific model (or shaping principle) of intelligent design is not only plausible but also perfectly legal in any academic context, even if it results in religious implications.
Materialistic naturalism has little or nothing to offer empirically or philosophically, especially in view of all its ad hoc modifications. It is a pottage best left for those who are full of themselves.
Yes it is and more specifically it is called idolatry in the bible.