Certainly I think God is the designer. But that doesn't matter.
The issue is whether the items being studied best demonstrate design or evolution or some other explanation.
A belief that there is no God is just as much a religious belief as a belief that there is a God. But that question can and should be separated.
ID can stand alone as science without specifying who or what the intelligence is behind the design.
If they admit ID is a valid scientific theory, then they have to admit the possibility that God actually exists, and they won't do that.
So legitimate researchers who have no religious motivation are dismissed because of fear.
These guys are just mixing your faith into the argument because it clouds the actual issue that valid research is being ignored because it doesn't fit the approved template.