She and I seem to share exactly the same impression of ID. Exactly. But this is a "lie?" Has someone at the prestigious Discovery Institute discovered anything except that someone else's discovery needs a rebuttal?
They call themselves a "think tank," but that's not right, either. They're a PR firm. They organize "events" like the presentations at the Texas schoolbook meeting. They do press conferences and press releases. Somebody does a study they don't like and the Discovery War Room jams their press with a same-day debunking. They may not know whether the subject of the study was shrimp or fruit flies, but they know the study really means nothing.
Everyone knows what ID is really about. That's the lovely irony of Philip Johnson's pubicly proclaimed "wedge strategy." He flat-out tells everyone that ID is the "secular" camel's nose to get creationism back into the schools. It's one of the worst-kept secrets around.
Creationism, being religion, dare not speak its own name in a discussion of school textbooks. Thus it fights for ID, a militant ignorance of any evidence that creationism is ridiculous as science.