re: AAS issues statement on 'ID'
Basically what you are inferring is: if "chance" is not involved, it's not 'science'.
I wonder if 'science' would interested in defining 'what' intelligence' is?
And is there a consensus on what it is among scientists?
...And 'how' it [intelligence] came to be?...And is it [intelligence] greater than the sum of its parts?
And is there latent 'intelligence' in atoms and molecules?
Maybe that belongs in a 'philosophy' class.
Oooops...'science' emerged from philosophy.