One would think that seperating intelligent design from science favors the suggestions made by concept of intelligent design. However, I think the mere presumption that there is a dichotomy is a false assumption and a lie. For that matter, any dichotomy that makes a comparison of reality is a lie. There is what is, and what is not, what is true, and what is untrue, what is reality and what is simply made up. Science is a means of determining what is true with as much certainty as possible. Removing science from spiritual truth for any reason other than maintaining objectivity amidst the subjectivity of human suppositions of spiritual truth is a false separation made by those wishing to distance themselves from the stigma of religion. The fact is, religion is highly flawed, and man-made just like science. Spiritual truth and scientific truth are one and the same (if there were a means for us to measure the spiritual like the physical) and any "scientist" who discounts the nature of spiritual ideas simply due to their immeasurable nature is limiting themselves and in my opinion not much of a scientist at all. The true scientist is willing to venture into any territory and entirely open to reality as it exists, seen or unseen, provable or not.
What of spirituality? Personally, I think it is very real. The mere fact that we are thinking about it and arguing about it suggests that we have a spiritual component. What would be the purpose otherwise? Why else would we question our purpose in the first place? If it weren't reality, we would have never thought to make the consideration. You might say this contradicts what I've said above about things being true or untrue, but even untrue things exist as a perverted truth.
Even a very creative and bizarre artist like Salvador Dali paints something I have in my room, a clock. There is a reason a watch is used as the metaphor of intelligent design... it is used to measure time. There is no such thing as human inspired originality. Everything that we have been has been before and will be again to both ends of time. Like a watch we are created within time and it's whim. People attempt to discredit the concept of spiritual truth with things like the flying spaghetti monster because they seem to forget flying, spaghetti, and monstrosities are things we experience in physical reality. If you think about it, I'm sure you too will find that the only true originality was origin itself, our inception, our creation, and all consciousness henceforce can be traced back to the beginning. Where, then does the consciousness of the spiritual truth/reality come from? There is only one explanation: it existed, and can be assumed to still exist like time and watches and the idea of purpose. There is only 1 other instance of true originality and that is the life of Jesus, and Jesus himself stated "I tell you the truth". This is because like our origin Jesus was the creator and not creation. Truth is definitive, equal to and and verified by our existence.