Is "intelligent design" just another name for "creationism"? (II) - An examination of the scientific basis of "intelligent design"

H. Allen Orr says (Devolution - Why intelligent design isn’t, The New Yorker, 23/5/05) that while intelligent design is not the same thing as "Biblical literalism", it is clearly at odds with Darwinism, which has no place for an "intelligent designer" in explaining how life evolves.

Orr cites two scientific developments that proponents of intelligent design say undermine Darwinism. He then proceeds to debunk them ...

His conclusion is that "biologists aren't alarmed by intelligent design's arrival in Dover and elsewhere because they have all sworn allegiance to atheistic materialism; they're alarmed because intelligent design is junk science. Meanwhile, more than eighty per cent of Americans say that God either created human beings in their present form or guided their development. As a succession of intelligent-design proponents appeared before the Kansas State Board of Education earlier this month, it was possible to wonder whether the movement's scientific coherence was beside the point. Intelligent design has come this far by faith."