I don't know what I came here to prove or disprove, other than your assertion of "Oh, wait... [hardly] anyone with a basic scientific education *does* buy into it" was in my experience incorrect. I won't defend nor attack either evolution or ID, because both rely on faith to some extent and the conversations never go anywhere.
> I came here to prove or disprove, other than your assertion of "Oh, wait... [hardly] anyone with a basic scientific education *does* buy into it" was in my experience incorrect.
Anecdotal evidence of a few people you know who go against the trend does not disprove the trend, anymore than that "But nobody I know voted for Nixon!" line proved that Nixon stole the election.
So, there is some small percentqage of people who should know better and who nevertheless choose superstition to explain the natural world. Doesn't change the fact that they rank as "hardly anyone."