Prof. Ron Numbers from the University of Wisconsin is quoted here as saying that “at heart, the proponents of intelligent design “want to change the definition of science” to include God, an issue he predicted would end up in the Supreme Court.”
This is just bogus, and I’ve email Prof. Numbers to ask him to explain his perspective.
ID claims that design can be detected, not that the designer can be identified. There is a world of difference between the two. ID says nothing that excludes the possiblity that life on earth was designed by an entity from another planet. Sure this sounds far-fetched, but the point is that ID in no way rules this out. So whatever you think about ID (and I’m not sure yet what I think about it as a scientific proposition), it can’t be correct to claim that ID tries to include God in science.