Intelligent Design or unthinking blasphemy?

This topic always comes to me when I hear people describe God as a designer. It has always seemed blasphemous to me.And the usual reply "well, this kind of design is different" doesn't work. If it's not design, why call it that? Particularly when we have a perfectly good and accurate word (create) to use.I suspect it's political. They know "intelligent creation" isn't going to pass Constitutional muster. But then, juries and judges seem smart enough to have noticed what I did; "intelligent design" is essentially creationism with clean clothes and a shave.