None of us had any illusions otherwise. But shshsh! The Discovery institute will be upset if you let the Big Secret out.
Well, some, yes. But some of the most vocal opponents of intelligent design are faithful Christian scientists. They fight intelligent design because it is bad science.
Then there are others, like Edward Oakes, who see intelligent design as bad theology, and fight it for that reason:
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0101/reviews/oakes.html
No, like it or not, intelligent design is about the hand of GOD.
No, intelligent desgin is about asserting false evidence for the hand of an awkward, lumbering, tinkering false god. It is not about Yaweigh, the God I worship.