Intelligent design and the concept that God engineered the universe/evolution are the same thing.
Saying you think the former is 'an absolute joke' and the latter is what you 'think' is rather dumb.
Creationism vs. Intelligent design is how much God did. Intelligent design is simply the 'a wizard did it' concept to destroy odds placed against something like the Evolution or the Big Bang. Creationism is when God creates everything that isn't a human construct. The issue with Creationism as stated in the bible is that everything appeared at once. Which is what makes it retarded. And if that's not the case, where is God making new things now and what the hell is he making?
Honestly, intelligent design really only exists so you can ignore these long odds until they can be drastically improved or removed altogether. It really sucks to understand just what happened and to find out that, at the time, the chances of the event were less than a millionth of a percent.