Calling for a new theory is valid science. The current on is certainly not complete, but once supernatural intervention is postulated, all theory is replaced by that one statement. Did trilobites become extinct? Why? God did it. End of story. Are fossil deposits different in this formation than in another? Why? God did it. End of story.
The 'theory' that God Did It trumps every other theory at every other level. Once yo accept it at any point you have no logical reason to reject it at any other. Go directly to the 5th Century, do not pass go, do not collect a mind you will no longer need.
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I've been the route you suggest, and disagree.
IF (big if I don't believe can be backed up) it were able to be PROVEN by those who suggest that "God made it" were the ONLY feasible solution, by eliminating the alternatives as not fitting the facts, even they should be able to have their say. It doesn't appear that is Meyer's intent, though. Regardless, academic shunning ought not be part of the scientific process and it seems that there is a whole lot of "la-la-la-la - I can't hear you" going on in the evolution community, rather than engaging in discussion of the facts and engaging in apparently needed modifications of their pet theory.
Many, many mathematical Theorems are proven indirectly by demonstrating that there is no possible alternative, rather than by a step-by-step proof proceeding from the postulates. The science of how life developed has no reason to fear such a process, either - it begins to reek of the fiasco of the Vatican's treatment of Copernicus otherwise.
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