That's pretty much the idea. Some people have used fine-tuning to argue for ID, as you say, although many people are coming round to the idea that when we have a more complete picture of how the various elementary quantum fields arise (string theory, perhaps) that it may well turn out that the values for various physical parameters (speed of light, mass and charge of an electron, etc.) are not arbitrary at all, but can be calculated from first principles. In other words, they are that way because they couldn't be any other way.
A good example of this is the so-called flatness problem, which is the question "why is the overall density of the universe apparently exactly equal to the critical density". The critical density is the density that will cause the expanding universe to 'eventually' come to a standstill at an infinite time in the future, when it is infinitely big. This has been a major headache for cosmology, since the models predict that the early universe would have immediately collapsed back on itself if its density were just a tiny fraction greater than critical, and expanded so rapidly that stars and galaxies would never have formed if it were only a tiny fraction less. Then a new improved Big Bang model came along that incorporated a brief but exponentially rapid period of expansion, called inflation: this solves the flatness problem by saying that any initial non-flatness was very quickly 'ironed out' as the universe exponentially expanded.
I should add that this is still a very much ongoing, and somewhat controversial, area of research.