But I doubt many of the ID folk understood it.
Actually, the religious folks have my sympathy. They have been conditioned by a culture that has religious belief as one of the main under pinnings of the foundation. It is very hard to put the nonsense behind you to really look at what is proven fact. Even so, think how hard it was for someone like Galileo to go against the teachings of the church and to assert that the sun and not the earth was at the center of the solar system. I'd say he was damn fortunate to not lose his life completely over it.
I have a challenge for the ID people. Present one solid piece of evidence that indicates that there is a Creator. Show me one thing that cannot be explained by any other factor than that there was a creator who made it so. I double dare ya!
I'll warn you now that simply because we don't know how something came to be does not by default mean that there is intelligent design responsible for it; all it means is that we dont know, YET!