Outstanding find. Douthat eloquently expresses the fears that many of us here on FR have also held about what ID will do to conservatism.
When you fear your opponent's hyperbole, you've lost before you entered into battle. Hint, most of us on the ID side are not "anti-science".
Most of those who are ignorant about science somehow managed to arrive there having gone through the standard fare of science instruction, ToE included, anything & everything resembling ID excluded. How or why do you think that has happened?