I attended a five day Intelligent Design conference to see if it really was 'religion masquerading as science'. I was impressed with the level of scientific evidence supporting ID.
It took 5 days?! Seriously?
I can debunk everything you learned in just a few lines of text.
#1) If life on Earth was "intelligently designed", it must have been designed by SOMETHING. That thing is either naturally evolved/abiogenesis life _or_ is magic. Those are the only two options. If naturally evolved/abiogenesis life can and does exist, then claiming that life on Earth isn't that but was instead created by it gets you no where in your argument. If it doesn't exist, then you are just preaching Creationism with one additional step in between.
Neither argument is valid.
#2) "cdesign proponentists". If you can cut and paste a term out of an entire textbook and replace it in all instances with a different term, yet the concepts, meanings and implications of the text are not altered in any way, then those two terms are equivalent. Cutting and pasting "creationists" out and putting "design proponents" in didn't change any part of the Dover textbook. Therefore the two terms mean the same thing.
Total time to type this: 2.5 minutes.
Five days of debunking down the drain. Laughable.