This is true for a tiny fraction of new ideas. Most deserve the ridicule that's heaped upon them at the outset. It's a winnowing process that I wouldn't change, even if I could.
I am pretty sure that Kurt Godel proved that any self-referencing logical system (including scientific theories about the universe) is either incomplete or inaccurate. In other words, one can't use words, or any other system of symbols to describe the unknowable parts.
My problem with the intelligent design crowd is that they are not giving God enough credit. They think that just because they can't understand how He did it, He couldn't have done it the way he says He did in the first few verses of Genisis.