Don't worry. Every prediction that whizbang scientific discoveries from great thinkers would force believers into atheism has failed thusfar. The latest was the Human Genome project, which ended up turning the dangling legs of some labcoated fence-sitters over to the Intelligent Designer side.
After the Genome shocker, they should have started asking hard questions about what thin ice "evolution" now sits on, but instead, they merely latch onto the next lame-brained "theory" like this one, which will be chewed over for awhile, then discarded with all the others.
After each one of their lil' "theories" is cast aside as useless, they always express relief that there is now a brand-new one which gives them "hope" to still disbelieve God's Word.
Oh, puh-leaze...
The article you link doesn't even support the claim you make for it. You claim "fence-sitters", plural, while the article just just quotes a single person suggesting intelligent design, and you claim that people who were "on the fence" were "swung over" to a view of intelligent design, but there's no indication that Myers wasn't already in that camp to start with.
A the reporters slant is fatuous anyway -- he suggests that there was a hasty meeting to deal with the "shocking" discovery that humans have about the same number of genes as mice (and other mammals), and yet this fact has been known for decades (and is no real surprise).
The reporter was pushing really hard for a interesting "angle", and just ended up sounding silly.