Have you read these papers, or are you just repeating something you read online?

>pseudo-science

I'm not sure why you mention this as a contrast. Macro evolution also does not follow the scientific method as there is no repeatable experiment you can design to falsify the hypothesis. This is well-known among evolutionary biologists.

Thomas Nagel, David Berlinski, and David Stove are all atheist/agnostic philosophers who find the arguments of intelligent design worth considering. They don't agree with inferring a deity from the findings, but they do think there is something special about mental causation, and it seems to show up in biological history, which is the core of ID theory. Theological inferences are a tertiary matter that is not fundamental to the theory. The theory itself is purely mathematical and empirical. So, I would suggest you take a second look at the works I recommend.

Also, here is a short, readable article by Nagel laying out his view that mental properties are an essential, and unexplored feature of our universe.

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/the-core-of...