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GW - yes it is a special case - a microcosm of how culture, peer-review and consensus can all be used to perpetrate a fraud on the public. Evolution has just been around a lot longer and spent less time under the ‘microscope’ of critical thinking.

NS - from a hostile environment? Wasn’t it a catholic monk who determined the science of natural selection and gene transfer. Hardly a hostile environment.

ID - while I do not agree w/ the wedge strategy I do see that everything in the universe shows intelligent design.
Scientific study is the application of logic or of trying to uncover the rules that govern the structure(s). Life and creation are way too intricate and inter-twined to be attributed to chance. Since ID is not the hot topic it once was I can only conclude you have an ulterior motive for bringing it up now.

NS - from a hostile environment? Wasn’t it a catholic monk who determined the science of natural selection and gene transfer.

Mendel's working out genetics didn't run contrary to Creation. It only explained differences, as creationists would say today, "within kind."

I do see that everything in the universe shows intelligent design. ... Life and creation are way too intricate and inter-twined to be attributed to chance.

Those are both highly subjective opinions.

Since ID is not the hot topic it once was I can only conclude you have an ulterior motive for bringing it up now.

ID was just another attempt to put a scientific veneer on creationism. Most creation proponents had realized that putting the word "Science" after "Creation" wasn't getting many to buy that these religious beliefs were science.

Evolution has just been around a lot longer and spent less time under the ‘microscope’ of critical thinking.

I missed that. What? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It has been around a lot longer and therefore has spent MORE time under the 'microscope' of critical thinking. Around longer time = more time, around shorter time = less time, not the reverse. Longer = more, shorter = less. Or am I missing something about the English language here? Anyway, the theory as it is today is quite a bit different than as first proposed due to over a century of critique and discovery. Germ theory is quite a bit different too. Successful theories tend to change over time because nobody gets it right from the beginning.