With the way even the president of Cornell University has decided to get involved in this by making a major speech decrying it, I have to say that the way I'm seeing this now is fully explained by -
(Scientific Community):(ID) :: (Catholic Church):(Copernicus)
The scientific community really has to get down and dirty involved in this discussion, with facts and figures instead of obstruction and name calling, or their battle is lost.
Those opposed to ID are reluctant to face the fact that they look at the world from a peculiar perspective that dates to Leipnitz or Hume. In other words, they don't even know the philosphical foundation of their science. At least they don't even bother to argue that all knowledge is empirical, as if that were self evident. But men like Einstein and Goedel disagreed with them on this point.