[blowfish]

And sometimes it's one person who stands against his discipline. sometimes for decades before his idea, which was ridiculed, is now accepted as proven.

Absolutely! And all the while, these people patiently gather more and more hard physical evidence supporting their idea until this mountain of evidence can no longer be denied.
Alas, ID has no such evidence. They must resort to attempting affirmative-action style lawsuits to get their poor pitiful little idea presented as a viable theory in schools.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

blowfish,
thanks for your comment. My point is not to argue for ID - since I'm not an ID person. My point was to argue that scientists are just as human as anyone else - and subject to poor thinking. I was surprised that not a single person read and commented on Dr. Lindzen's article in today's WSJ. But none of us like to examine things that point to our faults - myself included.

ampu