re: Their idea to find things in biology that could not have arisen from prior states is interesting...
This ID concept has the potential to backfire on it's progenitors (the Christian group funded Discovery Institute). Anyone could come along and create a new religion based on an Intelligent Designer - one that does not necessarily share its core values with Christianity.
At my non-profit "Designer Institute" the entry level curriculum would be the same as any other university science program - except that any reference to "chance" or "change" would be substituted with "plan". When the student reaches the highest level (borrowing heavily from Scientology here) the "secret" is revealed that a kind of magic called "Random Events" is all part of the Plan.