There is no such premise in science, or evolutionary biology, and thus your attempted analogy falls flat on its uninformed face.
Please stop misrepresenting the nature of the "ID controversy". At the very least, read all of the Kitzmiller decision for a good primer on the topic, to bring you up to speed on the background.
Hint: Methodological naturalism is not the same as philosophical naturalism.
And how long did it take us to get the FR IDleaders to admit that?