Melanie is the real deal, period.
Intelligent design must ultimately be a matter of faith since the designer’s existence cannot (yet, to be fair), be proven to exist.
Neither could a muon 20 years ago. More than this we cannot say.
I don’t think it should be taught, therefore as science, but it would properly belong in social studies. However, stripped of emotional stupidities I would not BAN a science teacher from his students having an open discussion on this. Free and open debate cannot harm objective reality.