Quote Originally Posted by Literalist-Luke View Post
"Expelled" is a documentary hosted by Ben Stein (of Ferris Bueller fame) that discusses the tendency in the science community to blackball anybody who publicly adopts an "intelligent design" stance regarding origins. If you don't preach evolution, the argument goes, you're unworthy of being a scientist. Ben Stein's documentary sets out to expose this and to demonstrate the hypocrisy of such practices.
The truth is that the ID crowd simply do not want to follow the rules of the scientific method - that is, they want a level of respect accorded their scantly-evidenced hypotheses equal to that of more mature and well-supported theories.

Resistance to ID is more a resistance to putting untestable, religious ideas into science than being opposed to religion (or Christianity) itself. ID only really works as a "negative" science - looking to poke holes in current theory that it disagrees with, and does not produce forward-looking hypotheses. It offers almost nothing in the way of discovery (what has ID ever done to help us unlock secrets of the universe?), and its only utility is to support the faith of those who believe that God did not or could not have created other than what they believe. And that utility is even limited because, by setting itself up as a matter of faith, when it proves wrong it hurts the faith of the one who believes in it.