I don't think it discredits intelligent design at all. Maybe the classical conservative Christian view, but many others believe in evolution as intelligent design.
And just a quick response to the first post:
This discovery does nothing to help Darwin. Darwin didn't invent the idea of evolution. He helped come up with Natural Selection as a mode for evolution. While this discovery helps prove evolution, it does not prove the mode for evolution.
(For the record, I believe that Darwin was right in that Natural Selection is one mode of evolution, but there are others as well).
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