Actually, I think the idea of ID is gaining strength if FR is any indication.
There are daily posts (often more than one) on this subject which clearly demonstrates that ID is being discussed in the general public. Furthermore,the more they think about it the more ID begins to resonate in the general population.
I realize it is a fetish among "scientists" to consider the general population a collection of ignoramouses, however, that would be their fatal mistake.
But just because something is being more intensely debated doesn't make it correct. For instance, Islam is being talked about all the time right now - and rightfully so. But that doesn't make Islam correct.
The public is not made up of ignoramuses. But the public can sometimes be easily misled. That is the case with ID.
Evolutionary biology is not going to disappear anytime soon. Neither is Christianity. But as more and more people learn about what evolutionary biology is, they will come to realize that it is not a threat to their belief in God.
The reason so many people are initially attracted to ID is because they do not approve of the way the left uses evolution as a means to diminish God, faith, and morality. But those are political problems, not scientific ones. Evolution, left to itself, is only a materialistic mechanism without any political undertones. Once people realize this, then the movement to make ID a scientific idea will fade away.
Right now people are sorting this all out and things will get emotional on both sides. But things will eventually settle down, with faith and science both strengthened.