At some level, the whole Creationist/ID position seems to reflect a fundamental insecurity about theology. These people observe things in the world in which they live that do not comport with information found in their holy texts.

For reasons as yet unclear to me and others, the validity of their holy texts is contingent upon the words and their meanings being literal. I suppose this avoids hermeneutical disputes, but the cure is worse than the disease, because the position requires of them that the espouse beliefs and (I’ll say the word) “theories” that are palpable nonsense.

It seems as if these people would rather distort physical reality than do the hard work of interpreting their holy texts.