When an article makes ridiculous claims at the start, the exercise is as useless as reading HuffPost. ID is not some creationist plot. How ridiculous. ID is just as valid, in fact more-so statistically, than the magical theory of the ‘big accident’.
This is yet again the expansive reading of the non-Constitutional concept of ‘separation of church and state’, to say that ANY idea that is not atheistic in approach, is invalid in the public sphere.
In Galileo's time the available data fit the earthcentric model better than the heliocentric model. That's why the scientists, not the clerics, attacked him.
As more data came in scientists changed their views.