ID implies a designer, for which there's no evidence as Dawkins pointed out.
..............but science does not rule. It attempts to prove what is known at least by some.
These 'some' can't claim to 'know' anything without solid evidence to back up their 'knowledge'.
"Scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena and acquiring new knowledge, as well as for correcting and integrating previous knowledge. It is based on gathering observable, empirical, measurable evidence, subject to specific principles of reasoning."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
Science naturally is threatening for those with lazy, untrained or inadequate minds, that turn to analogies of Bertrand Russell's teapot to ease their fear of the unknown.
