"I may be missing some fundamental tenets of intelligent design, but it seems to me that the idea that a Supreme Being established the processes by which biology works, and by which evolution is thought to have progressed, does not conflict with any bit of proven science."
You're right, of course. The only way the bigots can generate an argument against ID is to dishonestly conflate it with young-earth, 7-day creationism.
Again, it is the lack of knowledge of scripture that belies the arguments against I.D.. They leave out the part about a day is like a thousand years to God. In other words God is not a temporal being and his actions cannot be explained or defined in temporal terms.