you: Oh please. ID proponents can hide their light under a bushel if they choose, for whatever political purpose they desire, but any assertion of a designer other than a supreme being just pushes the origins question back a notch. It's dishonest and should be shameful.
Those who believe the Designer is God are not "hiding their light under a bushel" - they're talking about science here.
There are ID supporters who believe the designer is a "collective consciousness" and others who believe the designers are aliens. The second notion (panspermia - Crick's worldview) is not far at all from exobiology or astrobiology.
How bizarre! The IDers have figured out how to separate science from religion and that's a problem???
Those who believe the Designer is God are not "hiding their light under a bushel" - they're talking about science here.
You highlighted the problems that many pro-evolutionists have with ID'ers....they see them as having a more religious agenda. They are so antireligious(or anti-tautolgous) that any one who proposes a divergent view on the origins of life orthodoxy, that the main body of evolutionary biologists hold to be true, is only a boogeyman conservative intolerant science phobe christian in a scientist's lab coat with geeky pocket protectors!