I've actually written a book on intelligent design - in fact, your buddy William Dembski has read it, just as I've read a couple of his - so I'm pretty familiar with both sides, and with creationism as well, and I'm afraid that you're entirely wrong about everything you've just said.
There is no "huge amount of evidence" backing intelligent design; if there were, then the only "scientific" "quarterly" journal that supports ID - founded by Dembski, of course, and available at http://www.iscid.org - would actually be publishing scientific articles on a quarterly basis, right? Because, you know, there'd be all of these exciting new things to report!
Hooray!
Sadly, though, the journal has not published a new article since 2005. Wanna know why?
Go ahead and guess.
Give up? The reason is that there is no "huge amount of evidence" backing intelligent design!
Uh-oh!
Here, here. There's a great old Robert Heinlein essay called "Spin-Off," which is actually taken from testimony he gave to a congressional panel back in the '70s. It details all of the revolutionary technologies that have come from our efforts to solve the mechanical problems presented by space exploration - and of course, the list would be quite a bit longer today. Space exploration, he noted, was one of the few federal programs that has paid for itself many, many times over.
