[CarolinaGuitarman]

" IDers, if I could speak for them, would maintain that there is more to creation and life than merely the physical components."

There is no way to examine and test non-physical components.

"If science, and perhaps rightly so, cannot envision or account for a reality beyond materialism then it is self limiting and should, therefore, drop all "supra natural" claims at explaining life."

Science makes no supra natural claims, that would be religion and ID. There is no EVIDENCE for a reality beyond matter. For either science or religion. Until some shows up, there is no reason to waste time with untestable speculation like ID.

[Pietro]

"Science makes no supra natural claims.."

Hate to disagree but it most certainly does, ie that life is self generating.

"There is no EVIDENCE for a reality beyond matter."

Only if matter is the sole criteria. What you have here is a circular argument.