I personally know or have met almost all of the top intelligent design proponents, such as: Dembski, Marks, Behe, Johnson, Axe, Meyer, Sanford, Guillermo, Wells

I personally know or have met almost all of the top intelligent design proponents, such as: Dembski, Marks, Behe, Johnson, Axe, Meyer, Sanford, Guillermo, Wells, and Sternberg. Most are certainly not of the 'god created the world in 6 days' variety creationists. Most believe in evolution and an old earth, consistent with most scientists today. They only disagree with whether stochastic processes can generate highly complex, highly specified functionality. They believe this because they believe the evidence is very strongly in favor of their position. They are not advocating their position because of a religious agenda. In fact, at least for some like Sanford, it is the other way around. He is one of the few 6 day creationist ID advocates, but he became a creationist from being an atheist after seeing the evidence for ID.