Intelligent design isn't dumbing down..What science teaches today is different from 100 years ago and will be different
100 years from now. People will laugh at what we taught in the future. I think the obsesssion with evolution will be looked at with laughs. Freedom is important and freedom of idea and actions (eating, smoking and thinking) is imporant now. Laws about "obesity",smoking bans and hate
crime laws scare people who believe in freedom like me.
I'm sorry, but ID is dumbing down of science standards.
The junk science that you mentioned has a lot in common with ID - it's the triumph of fuzzy-headed feelings over reason. Its proponents want it to be true, so to them it must be, and that's all the "proof" IDers can offer.
Evolution has good, hard science behind it. You might choose to reject that science because it doesn't fit with your personal preferences, but that doesn't make it so.
I agree that there are some dumb ideas trying to wear the garb of science. But just because they are doesn't mean that we should go looking for more, or excuse those that are.
ID is a stealth attempt to poke the camel's nose under the tent just as junk-food laws are an attempt to introduce new governmental regulation. Bad science all around, and must be fought at all costs.