[Dimensio]

Scientists that reject the possibility of a higher intelligence as the designer of the Universe, do not follow the scientific method.

How would a higher intelligence as the designer of the Universe be tested? What hypothetical observation would falsify the claim that a higher intelligence designed the universe?

[airborne]

Scientists that reject the possibility of a higher intelligence as the designer of the Universe, do not follow the scientific method.

Well, they have been wrong before. Many times, in fact!

[bvw]

That the complex web of life is too improbable otherwise. That camel's already in your tent, btw. See Roger Penrose's books. He has done the calculations.

[Gulf War One]

"The scientific mentality may be roughly characterized as the tendency to suspend belief until evidence of the appropriate kind is produced, and then to believe the proposition in question only to the degree that they available evidence warrants it, without excluding the possibility of a future disconfirmation."

Arthur Pap, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (The Free Press of Glencoe, 1962), p. 1.

You are exactly correct. If it cannot be measured, it is something other than science. Not something less valid; something simply beyond the realm of science. Religiosity should not mascarade as science, nor vice versa.