ID doesn't just seek to combat that evil evolution theory, my mind was made up about the validity of the ID argument almost a year ago when I saw an interview with the head of the Center for ID or some crazy orginization. He stated that The Grand Canyon was not formed by years of river erosion, erosion which is something that is even a common problem for any farmer, no he stated that he believed that the Grand Canyon was formed by a massive mother-of-all lightning storms apparently brought by God. Give me a break! Can you take that theory serious even for one nanosecond? Religion in itself is a philosophy, not a science. You cannot scientifically test for a deity or deities. If that makes science a bigotry then so be it. If it wasn't for science we'd all still be dying in our 30's and not living to 70+. The ID argument is an attempt to attack ALL science not just the theory of evolution, don't let anyone try to fool you. Just like the MSM hates our military & police the the ID'ers hate common sense.
If this person's opinions were correctly reported, then as you say he is a fruitcake. There are some fringe organizations out there riding the Intelligent Design movement which I confess I didn't know existed until some of the Darwinists on these threads mentioned them as being the Official Intelligent Design Central.
No, they are not. They are propagandists and nut jobs who are trying to use ID theory for their own purposes without properly understanding it. That does not discredit the work of real thinkers like Michael Behe, to mention one name. No more than some silly novel about cave men discredits Darwin. Darwin and General Evolution stand or fall on their own, not on what some idiot may happen to make of them. Does George Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman" discredit Darwin? Of course not. It's a play, not a scientific treatise.
But when you say "My mind was made up," I can well believe it. All the Darwinists on these threads appear to have made-up minds that nothing is likely to change.