Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.
In return society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
That said ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
In some parts of life like mathematics and science yeah I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
Just after World War II this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
Biology is now bigger than physics as measured by the size of budgets by the size of the workforce or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.