[cornelis]

it is the inductive method of scientific inquiry that is non-negotiable

This, too, is falsifiable. Or are we treating another animal here?

[StJacques]

it is the inductive method of scientific inquiry that is non-negotiable

"This, too, is falsifiable. Or are we treating another animal here?"

It is not "falsifiable" so long as science is a means to an end of understanding the material world. If you reject scientific method you convert science into a discipline in which the end justifies the means, which is precisely what Intelligent Design proposes to do since it postulates the outside intervention of a designer as necessary for the development of biological complexity in order to achieve the "end" of foregoing testable hypotheses to the contrary.