Intelligent questions are allowed. When ID has a couple, let us know.
I'd love to see the scientific establishment be as rigorous about teaching that homosexual activity causes AIDS and should be avoided, as they are about evolution.
The former might actually do our nation some good, the latter is arguably an irrelevant piece of trivia we forgot after college.
"Could it be that the 'junk DNA' found in the genome is actually meta-DNA that can 'think' and design useful, instead of random, mutations?
You are quiote right. The only use ID has ever developed is to spur more research into what they call 'holes' in evolution. The flagellum is a great example. After the issue was raised by the IDer's, in particular Behe, biologists did their homework and learned a lot. And the information still supported evolution adn gained us more insight right down to the genetic level. The IDer's think they find 'holes' in evolution, but they are really promoting research opportunities that favor evolution.
THe only problem is that planning research like this is like playing a never ending whack-a-mole game.
It is real simple. If you give a primordial soup long enough, it will manufacture a Rolex.
You can start by reading Darwin's Black Box, if you have the courage.