I wish Chuck Colson all the best, but he is naive. The root of the problem is that science is a client of big government, and so is education. But the government has a vested interest in preventing the raising of a moral self-sufficient generation, -- because a moral self-sufficient generation will easily discard 90% of the government as innecessary waste. The government (not any particular adnministration, but the government as a system) correctly identifies that Intelligent Design is vaguely connected to a religious outlook, and that is sufficient to anathemize ID in public schools. The science will always provide the government with the necessary "scientific" argumentation. To think that the scientific community en masse will gather under the banner of "science compared to science" is to expect a pig to walk away from the trough, althouigh individual scientists perhaps might, to a great detriment to their careers.
Annalex,
Outstanding! Alas, someone on a blog-site is making a deeper connection in regard to this issue. I would only add this: there is a triumverate of interests at play here, not merely a duality.
Big Business, Big Government, and Big Science are an unholy Trinity, joined together and mutually feeding off of one another, wittingly or not, "cloning the same low-quality man" (as the novelist Musil once put it in his novel about the decline of the Austro-Hungarian empire and its replacement by consumerist society).
Big Science limits the scope of human knowledge to that which can be conceived on analogy to human factum, orienting all human intellectual resources to the goal of technological mastery, assimilating man himself to the machines that he creates. Big Business and Big Government provide all the resources that they can muster to keep this state of affairs alive. For Big Business, there is money to be made (an endless array of new consumer goods produced, creating needs and desires where none existed before). For Big Government, there is power to be garnered(by, as you recognize, the abolition of the free individual and responsible moral agent, so that all will be enslaved to Moloch of the State).
ID points to a type of knowledge that is not essentially utilitarian and so cannot be manipulated for the accrual of money and power. That makes it quite threatening indeed...