That's exactly what I think it is. Just as I think that's what the theory of gravity is. They just happen to be ideas that seem to currently explain best what we see happening in the physical world.
Is it not the scientists being the current "witch burners" to anyone who disagrees with their entrenched "ideas", ask any scientist who is not working to prove entrenched "ideas", how open minded "the establishment" is.
If any scientist puts up a rigorous and devastating attack on basic evolutionary theory in a formal paper in a biological journal (which, by the way, is where we do science these days), and sees it stand up to rigerous attack because he's done his homework, his career would be made. He'd have a permanent chair in a dozen universities around the world.
Sticking your nose up in the air about some crank theory and refusing to offer your homework for inspection where scientists do their sciencing, which is what ID'ers do, is hardly the same thing. Behe and Denton and their fellow travelers have gained the scientific disrespect they have received in the old fashioned way: they earned it.