Intelligent Design Theory: Science or Religion?

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The fact is that nobody here KNOWS if there is intelligent design or not...although I doubt that will stop the atheists from pretending they do...

My worldview is simply a conclusion based one based on the weight of evidence. No real science ever states something unequivocally because new findings always dump the cart. However, in such things as this (Similar to the moon and green cheese), some rather strong conclusions are what we have.
If youd read the various output of the ID "Scientific" literature v the literature of standard biology, youd quickly see (on any particulr subject) that ID "science" has never produced any unique focused research results or any non-debunked analyses (like Irreducible complexity ). So, a conclusion that one ultimately arrives at is that ID seems to be merely a "wish list" and not a scientifically compelling evidence based story.
In mymind, the strength o evidence wins the day. ID evidence has been continuously debunked or shot down in the field, Id say that the possibility of an " ID world" is quite remote, based on what we now know. (whether its a deity derived or or the other style of ID that the Discovery Institute tries to make us believe they represent). The only reason I cannot say UNEQUIVOCALLY that Im convinced that ID is impossible is if we, as we tour the galaxy, find out , in successive findings, that ALL of what we find is based upon
1organic chemistry
2Ribonucleic acid based.
those two above findings would give me pause to develop another hypothesis or hypotheses, that is not an abiogenesis- earth-based

Your arguments to the contrary seem to be based on "just not quite enough interest" to delve deeper into the lit,but rather "

Ive gotta say something deep-sounding on this subject anyway"

That's all Im saying. The fact that you rewind every couple weeks to restate this piece of ( deleted), is at least amusing.
You kinda remind me of the John Goodman character in "Lebowski" where hes lost in Viet Nam and everything he says is a restatement of the battle of Whey ]

And here I was, thinking that baraminology derived from the French "barre à mine", spud bar/crowbar!

It makes sense, you'd need such a tool to disintrincate the facts with the religious nuts..

If the designer decided that "evolution" was the path

disintrincate

Dis`in´tri`cate
v. t. 1. To disentangle.

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If the designer decided that "evolution" was the path

Then the designer also needs to take responsibility for the thousands of catastrophic and edaphic changes to the planet within which naturl slection works as organisms adapt.
Tinker tinker tinker.

we see the events and results of microevolution and higher , and there seems to be natural selection in action and nobody notices the splitting and pile driving of the continents (the rending of African East and the colliding of Australia with Asia)

Weve already go huge species differences through the Sunda sea where Australian species are beginning to "collide" with SE Asian species along a huge collection point called the "Wallace Lines".
Or the fact that we see polar bears either going exptinct or(in most cses) readapting to totally different food sources (Alaskan nd Canadian polar bears are starting to learn how to fish Salmon and char.

Mine is a conluison Frank. Yours IS (despite your protestations) a belief system.

But science allows, nay, encourages, independent verification. Don't see much of that in religion or intelligent design flummery.

Science is definitely human, as is religion, it's just the former has built in quality control measures. The latter fights against them tooth and nail.