The consistency with which those opposing ID use straw man arguments insures the victory of ID. Start dealing with ID as scientifically sophisticated and you might catch up.
You need to catch up. ID got dealt with early. Say, no later than when Behe's book came out ten years back. When you get there, there's no there there.
Ten years later, it's up to ID to show that it generates a program of research likely to someday increase the sum total of our knowledge in the way evolution has. Ten years later, it hasn't crossed the finish line. It hasn't crossed the STARTING line.
What other "scientific theory" devotes itself to dashing off Carville-Stephanopolis-"War Room"-style press releases in rebuttal of real science studies? What other scientific theory in history made a point of bypassing the peer-reviewed literature to address itself to school boards and high-schoolers? What other scientific theory is a grab-bag of odd and mutually inconsistent screeches that another theory is wrong?