Apparently watching a debate will tell you all about intelligent design and make it scientific.
Unfortunately, there is no falsifiable hypothesis. The arguments boils down to information must be intelligently designed without any way to refute the claim. Hence, it’s not a scientific argument–it’s a claim of faith.
The first clue might be to search the actual scientific literature, but, you know, videos are the same thing.
It’s the same rationale used for invading Iraq — there are WMDs there … because the ‘leadership’ said they were there and thus WMDs are there.