Unfortunately putting on "evolutionary colored glasses" has been a requirement in our Universities, which limits the models available for grant monies.
Hopefully you will be willing to admit that if scientists said he needed a grant to prove that God designed DNA, they would be found with a sign reading "Scientists will work for food". And if the faculty and the students knew his position, they would spit on him as they passed by.
However the conservative wave overtaking our country is now beginning to change this dilemma in the households of America. However the universities are lagging well behind the mainstream. Expect many more scientists, as they become more numerous on campuses, to begin pursuing ID research.
ID scientists are not victums however, because we feel the evidence is still to incomplete to force it down anyones throat as fact.
A grant application must describe the nature of the research which is proposed. There is no scientific research that could realistically explore the issue. Thus no grants. Unless you have some suggestions ...
What sort of research would you have these monies fund? What specific, testable predictions do the alternatives to evolution make? What should these scientists expect to find if your theory is correct? You are writing the grant proposal: If you get funded, how will the cash get spent?
Hopefully you will be willing to admit that if scientists said he needed a grant to prove that God designed DNA, they would be found with a sign reading "Scientists will work for food".
Scientists would not be looking for God. They would be looking for specific results and observations unique to the hypothesis that God designed DNA. Were this at all a legitimate exercise, a canny Creationist might write a proposal to research a phenomenon unique to the hypothesis the God did not design DNA, hoping to fail. But that strategy incurs a risk unacceptable to Creationists-- namely that the results of the investigation turn out to be consistent with the written proposal. Small wonder that most Creationist groups have ceased funding for field research.