Can you cite one paper where this is actually done?
You might check the original article, wherein a spokesman for the Templeton Foundation says that when they wanted to actually fund ID research, as opposed to debates, no one applied.
IDers claim one could detect design. However, no one ever tries it.
By the way, the process of speciation can be and is being examined by scientific methods.
“Can you cite one paper where this is actually done?”
Fascinating. My statement, “The approach of intelligent design is to analyze phenomena, through the use of logic and math, in order to reach a conclusion,” itself arises from my own a priori (and simple) reasoning. A priori reasoning is present in any instance of human discourse.
“By the way, the process of speciation can be and is being examined by scientific methods.”
Examination by scientific methods is vastly inferior to demonstration by scientific methods, thus speciation goes in the category of untested ideas next to intelligent design.