Well, it has been going for 28 years now, with no sign of diminished activity. The DI Press puts out book after book, Bio-Complexity publishes several articles every year, other publishers publish books by ID authors, the ID people are frequent guests on various interview shows. A new crop of ID people has come up, many of them working in information theory, computer science, and so on, and their names are starting to appear in print, in journals of engineering, information theory and so on. As some of the founders of ID have passed on or begin to fade into the background, it looks as if a new generation is taking their place. Eight or ten years ago, The Skeptical Zone declared that ID was dead, but it’s the liveliest corpse I’ve ever seen. The idea of design in nature just won’t go away.
In fact, there is probably more interest in it now than there was in, say, the 1970s, when the public face of science was people like Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov. Now we have James Tours and Scott Turners and Michael Dentons out there in the public eye, selling large numbers of books or making large numbers of video appearances. Serious philosophical books have been inspired by ID, including one by Del Ratzsch and two by Rope Kojonen. Even atheists like Bradley Monton and Thomas Nagel have taken an interest in it. The ID people can take a great deal of credit. They’ve kickstarted a new social conversation. And the Amazon sales figures for ID-themed books seem to indicate that the conversation is not going to end any time soon.