A very nice takedown of an irrational piece.
That said, you ought not have whitewashed Dawkins. He’s an “evangelical atheist” who goes out of his way to both insult other belief systems and convert others to his.
Hitchens (while I respect the man) also has a stated bias. While you cited him in his statement about merely believing in one God less, you neglected to do so with respect to his arguments that religion is a negative force.
Both have written books forthrightly stating their positions.
For full disclosure, I believe in ID. Within certain limitations and under certain definitions.
That God created life and put in place the mechanisms of evolution (of which we still only have a limited understanding) is philosophically defensible.
Arguing that “random mutation” is unlikely to have created the results we observe through the fossil record and direct observation is also perfectly defensible. Making this arguement implies design, which in turn implies a designer.
Neither is falsible, but then, neither is the current proposed mechanism of randomn chance.
