[previous poster said: There is no theory of intelligent design]
It's the only competition materialism has left. It's the last ditch. It's about stopping materialism or, at least, slowing it down a bit. The march of the Materialist Party with stock market prices for guidance.
Obviously money talks. Bob Dylan says it swears. Andy Warhol said it's the only art left.
Science is jealous because it has delivered wonderful stuff and it can't get its hands on power. It still has to lobby instead of being lobbied. Anti-ID, and anti-Creationism is still working overtime, is a recruiting tool for the Materialist Party and its Commissars.
It can't campaign like a proper party because all its spokespersons are goofballs. Calamity Jane said that the scientists she knew were nerds and we don't want nerds in No 10 or The Oval Office. (No tasteless jokes please.)
Think of the jokes about Pidcock and Dawkins.
I think Materialism is beginning to flounder under the law of diminishing returns. Doesn't all progress?