Nothing scientific about it either.
Is that ID's main appeal? Simplicity?
"Is that ID's main appeal? Simplicity?"
Perhaps you will object if I refer you to Occam's Razor?
"Ewww
intelligent design people! They're just buck-toothed Bible-pushing nincompoops with community-college degrees who're trying to sell a gussied-up creationism to a cretinous public! No need to address their concerns or respond to their arguments. They are Not Science. They are poopy-heads."
There. I just saved you the trouble of reading 90% of the responses to the ID position.
You question appeal. EITHER
I can believe in a message from an all powerful being that says "Trust me, believe me and have eternal life knowing that I love you."
OR
I can embrace
"You are ignorant and contemptibly so. But you can get a little respect from us by acknowledging that your central beliefs are fairy tales and then be a real macho man like us and deal with the fact that oblivion is your only destiny."
There was this guy a long time ago that took some really terrible punishment on my behalf. He did it despite knowing that I would hate him for years. I'll stick with Him, thanks.
For the dumb-downed MTV generation, it might just be the ticket. Avoids all that pesky thinking, and stuff.