I think you’re being too charitable here. I can easily show where important data are being ignored (see Bilbo above) and have zero problem mentally entering an ID “program.”
Example: the lens of the eye and its components were designed. This makes a clear empirical prediction: the major protein components of the lens that make it refractive, the crystallins, will have no statistically-significant similarities with other proteins with different functions.
There are three crystallins that can be used to test this hypothesis.