As to the first part of your response, the reason for the lack of research into the ID theory is due to the fact that there is no real way to find out if the universe was designed by a intellegent being. You could not even begin to investigate into it, because, quite frankly, who would you ask? I can't think of any feasible way to look into the validity of the ID theory, and if there is no way to investigate it, it's not really a theory anymore, just speculation.
To the second part, the only way to answer your question about the laws and properties of our universe is that it is just the way things happend to work out. If anything different had happened during the creation of the universe and the ensuing expansion, you would not be able to even ask the question, since you would not exist. The laws of physics and the fact that we are able to exist on this planet are coincidences. The chaos of the universe has just happend to produce some VERY orderly circumstances, thats all. Also, when you think about the duration of life on this planet, on a cosmic time scale it is really just a blip, a temporary fluke that will eventually dissapear.
However, this information doesn't mean that ID isn't a valid way of thinking, its just not the way I choose to think.
