[Question_Assumptions]

It's theoretically possible God wants the universe to appear natural in general, but left hints that would eventually be discovered by intelligent life. See Contact (the book, not the movie), where they find messages encoded in the decimal expansion of pi.

Curiously enough, if you take the blank video zinger out of the movie Contact, it makes the ID point about SETI pretty well.

That would be far more convincing than the current state of ID which claims that if we don't know the exact process by which something evolved, then God did it.

The current state of ID as defined by it's critics. Of course the current state of SETI is that if the universe if full of stars, it must be full of planets, and if it's full of planets, they must be full of life, and if it's full of life, it must be full of intelligent life, and so on.

[Liberal Classic]

I read Contact many years ago (I haven't seen the Jodie Foster movie). I have some measure of respect for Sagan as an astronomer, and his Cosmos television shows inspired me to study science when I was a child. That idea from Contact makes great fiction.