Odd, when the chemist Edward Peltzer does exactly that, we get lawsuits and "theocracy" in response. Yet no one is able to show me where he said anything at all religious.
Interesting that you can see atheism in the insistence that science restrict itself to propositions that can be studied using the methods of science.
Finding designers that have no attributes is not among the things that science can study.
Now if you were propose that a designer did some specific thing at some specific time and place, and we have the tools to conduct a forensic investigation, I would support that kind of research.
Sorry if Pelzer gets tarred incorrectly. It’s the 99.9 percent of ID proponents who are on record having religious motives that give the rest a reputation for being theistic.