From my long experience with its practitioners and its adherents, your hypothesis turns out not to be the case. Quite the contrary, in fact.
I find it significant that the reasoning skills of the most high-profile IDers are such that it seldom takes them long to make several fallacious arguments or factual howlers.
several fallacious arguments or factual howlers.
Factual howlers:) I joined a wolf pack for a year to become a better one:). My voice "evolved."
I notice the main article was no exception. I swear I didn't know someone had already used the word "howler" on this thread.