“You have, for perhaps the 6th time, failed to answer that simple question (with any meaningful answer), and managed to become insulting as well. I’d ask why, but I suspect I will get more insults. Let’s just agree you’ve won the argument with a saavy, ad-hominem retro-grade approach.”
You’re asking what the benefit is of scientific inquiry that has no practical benefit. First of all, scientific research is done all the time for the sake of pure knowledge with no anticipated practical benefit. When physicists study gravity, do you think they imagine that they will produce an anti-gravity machine? Of course not. When cosmologists study the big bang, do you think they have a practical application in mind? If so, they must be smoking some pretty strong stuff!
As for the insults, I’m just a jerk. That’s what my wife says, anyway. I usually try not to be one, but the tricks used by evolutionists and their hostility to ID really annoy me. I’ll work on it though.
Surely you don't need me to list all of the pracical benefits and applications of gravitational theory? Do you realize just how much of physics has its foundations in gravity? I don't think this is a good example for your argument. Also: anti-gravity has been researched - I even recall some Russian scientist claiming he can slightly descrease gravity. It has massive potential benefits if it is possible. Space travel/colonization (and complete space dominance) being one of them.
Your second example, the Big Bang, is a better example. However, I, as a layman, could name many practical applications that arise from studying the proposed "bang" origin of the universe. First and foremost: a better understanding of physics. Perhaps even a unification theory for Quantum and Newtonian physics, which we lack. Gains such as these may give us our replacement to nuclear energy. Or, as you stated, an anti-gravity device. I will admit that these are obviously "down the road" benefits to a theory that may never be validated. But many such prior endeavors have lead to some incredible gains. Thus scientists pursue some things they know may never be fully understood.
Intelligent Design, as far as I can tell, does not offer this. Intelligent Design begins and ends with God, who is above the realm of man and science.