The persecution of ID scientists by some universities and the mainstream media doesn't look good. The public will eventually turn against anything that looks like totalitarian thought control. The academic world is still trying to recover from loss of credibility because of liberal PC speech controls.
If ID research leads to nothing then evolution theory will have been strengthened. On the other hand, if they come up with some valid discoveries, we all benefit.
If ID research takes place at all, we'll be astonished.
What research?
"If ID research"
What is ID research? Probing the mind of God? How? How, then, is ID, which involves supernatural, be examined using natural scientific techniques?