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I'm still waiting for a list of Hindu, Buddist, Athiest, and muslim scientists to sign on that ID or Creationism is backed by scientific fact.

Muslim scholar Dr. Muzaffar Iqbal ( PhD Chemistry-U. of Saskatchewan: Center for Theology the Natural Sciences), the editor of the journal Islam & Science, is on the list of 600 Scientists who have signed on to the Dissent from Darwin organized by the Discovery Institute.

See also this paper from a Zoology professor at a Pakistani College --- Prof. Abdul Majid, entitled -- THE MUSLIM RESPONSES TO EVOLUTION :

http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_151_200/muslim_responses_to_evolution.htm

In this book, he catalogs a list of Muslim scientists/scholars who refute evolution.

I would not depend on Muslims ( even scientists ) to be allies of Darwinists if I were you. A lot of them hold to a strict literalist interpretation of Genesis.

For Jewish Scientists who believe in the Harmony between the Bible and Science, you might want to read Gerald Schroeder's book --- Genesis and the Big Bang Theory: The Discovery Of Harmony Between Modern Science And The Bible.

Go to Amazon to see a review.

Of course, the Discovery Institute's Intelligent Design Movement has Jewish Scientists who support their movement.

I am not familiar with most Hindu or Buddhist Scientists and their view of Intelligent Design. I have been to India once, in the 1980's and have attended some lectures in New Delhi.

The closest people who believe in some sort of intelligence in origin of life on earth are probably Hindu Scientists such as Award winning Astrophyscist, Chandra Wickarmasinghe and Jayant Narlikar ( whose early education was at the Banaras Hindu University, India's leading astrophycist), who together with Sir Fred Hoyle, express doubt in the Big Bang model of the origin of the Universe and postulates that life on earth might have been seeded from outer space by intelligent directed panspermia ( I have heard Narlikar's lecture once when I visited India in the 1980's ).

Both of these Indians were influenced greatly by their teacher, Sir Fred Hoyle.

In his 1981/4 book Evolution from Space (co-authored with Chandra Wickramasinghe), Hoyle calculated that the chance of obtaining the required set of enzymes for even the simplest living cell was one in 1040,000. Since the number of atoms in the known universe is infinitesimally tiny by comparison (1080), he argued that even a whole universe full of primordial soup wouldn’t have a chance. He claimed:

"The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.

Hoyle compared the random emergence of even the simplest cell to the likelihood that "a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein." Hoyle also compared the chance of obtaining even a single functioning protein by chance combination of amino acids to a solar system full of blind men solving Rubik's Cube simultaneously.

Of course men like Richard Dawkins oppose their views ( see his book -- THE BLIND WATCHMAKER), and so, the debate goes on...