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No, what's profoundly unscientific is refusing to test a hypothesis, and prohibiting others from doing so, just because you are afraid it might be true.

Who is preventing you or prohibiting anyone else from testing the Intelligent Design hypothesis?

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"Who is preventing you or prohibiting anyone else from testing the Intelligent Design hypothesis?"

Many academic institutions have shut down any such research and it is virtually impossible to get any grant money to explore the subject. Ben Stein covered the subject extensively in the movie "Expelled."