Okay, I did research the wedge document and cdesign propentsists. What I found was that there was a deliberate change of the word "creationism" to more palatable terms such as intelligent design. I wouldn't call this lying -- I would call it marketing.
I did not run across anything to indicate that these people at the Creation Institute don't actually believe what they say they believe.
Teach the Controversy
Main article:
Teach the Controversy
Teach the Controversy is a campaign conducted by the Discovery Institute to promote the
pseudoscientific principle of
intelligent design, a variant of traditional
creationism, while attempting to discredit the teaching of
evolution in United States public high school science courses.
The scientific community and science education organizations have replied that there is no scientific controversy regarding the validity of evolution and that the controversy is a religious and political one. A federal court, along with the majority of scientific organizations, including the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, say the institute has manufactured the controversy they want to teach by promoting a "false perception" that evolution is "a theory in crisis" by falsely claiming it is the subject of wide controversy and debate within the scientific community. In the December 2005 ruling of
Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, Judge
John E. Jones IIIconcluded that intelligent design is not science and "cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents".
en.wikipedia.org
You don’t think manufacturing a knowingly false narrative, in order to perpetrate an illusion of non agreement within the scientific community, with the intent to confuse the laity with intention to convince like minded politicians to ordain by law the spread of their religious beliefs to be deceitful?
Whether they believe their religion or not doesn’t excuse their deceitful strategy to force there religious beliefs onto the public at large.