"Intelligent design" is not, and will never be, science. The minute you assume a designer, you move outside the boundaries of science into metaphysics (or, as another poster put it----"magic").
And no, Virginia, believing that evolution happened and that intelligent design is bullshit does NOT deprive the scientist of spirituality.
I know several archaeologists who would laugh at such a silly assertion.
I'll point out that much evolutionist theory is based on the assumption that curiously chipped pieces of flint demonstrate the design activity of the ancestors of humans.
It's amazing how the word 'science' has become the banner with which the "Kings New Clothes" sort of people have swathed themselves in order to give validity to what is nothing more than their 'conceit."
Science is but a word that describes a learning process by which a person {a}'observes' something, {B}creates a theory concerning that 'something', {C}tests his theory and then restarts the sequence . There is the 'science" of fine art, the 'science' of cooking, the 'science' of warfare, and so on.
Notice that the entire learning process is completely Dependant upon {A} observing something. {A} is where your so-called "science" based upon evolutionary theory falls apart. No one was there at the beginning of the world and universe. So no one observed anything. This means that your 'science' is not factual at all......its a myth. When the basis of the 'science' is nothing but speculation {myth}, the rest of the tenets, dogma, etc., will suffer from flaws as well.