[tacticalogic]

The intensity of attacks that an ID proponent faces from DE people is exactly comparable to the fury evoked by any other religious debate.

Indeed. ID promises to provide an opportunity to look at the data from a new perspective, and a potential to drag the debate into chaos squabbling over the Designer.

[Coyoteman]

ID promises to provide an opportunity to look at the data from a new perspective, and a potential to drag the debate into chaos squabbling over the Designer.

That "new perspective" was abandoned by science a couple of centuries ago as unproductive.

And there would be no squabble over the designer. The proponents of ID are nearly unanimous that the designer was the Christian god. They just can't admit it, as they have to pretend ID is science.