Science is cumulative. The train of reasoning that leads to modern biology left the station 150 years ago.<<
And how many paradigm changes have happened in science in the last millenium? Last 150 years? Were the scientists of those times eager to embrace change or reluctant?
I won't beat you on the head for using reasoning in your argument. Philosophically scientists are still behind curve, so they are at a disadvangage.
DK
The last two big shifts were relativity and quantum theory. They were taken seriously immediately, and fully accepted in about 25 years.
They were based on evidence. ID will be taken seriously if it acquires some evidence. Or even if it proposes some actual research.
You might note that all of the principle theorists of ID have admitted that it has no research proposals.