[airborne]

Scientists don't discount hunches. On the contrary, they rely on hunches. What they don't accept is the notion that hunches are a substitute for scientific evidence.

Kind of what the whole experiment was about. Science had a 'hunch', but no definitive evidence.. No?

From the article - “But that has left open the question of whether the RNAP enzyme actually climbs up the DNA ladder one rung at a time, or does it move instead in chunks – for example, does it add three bases, then jump along and add another three bases.

[highball]

The difference is that scientists use their hunches as starting points, and experiment until they have physical evidence.

IDers pretend that their hunches are physical evidence.