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I think you have made your point about statistical improbability several time on this thread alone. My question is, given that living things are designed, what kind of research program would IDers propose to study the designs and perhaps create new ones? How would ID approach the design of a new form of life, and how would this program of research differ from one proposed by an evolutionist?

I think there is a misconception being promulgated on these threads that there is such a thing as evolutionist science and creationist science. This is politicizing science and it is totally wrong. Science, real science, follows its own music. It goes where the evidence, the technology and the possibilities lead it. There is much science going on and tens, if not hundreds of millions is spent every year on scientific research. Much of what has been found dealing with the questions being discussed here has had nothing to do with what we are discussing. It has been found by normal scientific research trying to solve some problem, some scientific question. For example, the drive to compare genomes is not being led by a desire to answer questions about evolution. It is being led for the purpose of learning more about our own bodies and finding out how it works by making comparisons which may elucidate some questions we cannot answer because we would not rather kill humans for research and also because with our bodies being just about the most complex ones around, we can sometimes find answers by looking at much simpler creatures to see how organisms work.

[To gore:] I think you have made your point about statistical improbability several time on this thread alone.

I have a language usage quibble here. He has "stated" his point often. I wouldn't say that he's "made" it.