[grey_whiskers]

However misguided some attempts to give ID a scientific basis may (or may not) be, the core of ID is nothing more than the belief that at unknown times God influenced evolution in unknown ways. It could be that He influenced it only by setting up the dominos in the beginning to fall in a particular way.

May or may not be true, for the sake of argument, or the sake of agreement. Point is, how do you set up a control group?
God being, well, God ("I AM"), how do you 'guarantee' that God doesn't interfere in the control group once you DO set one up. (Don't put the Lord your God to the test, and all that?)

Echoes of medieval wrangling about "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin"....

[dsc]

"Echoes of medieval wrangling about "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin"...."

You might want to do some more reading on that. The question was, are angels purely spiritual or corporeal? If corporeal, the number is finite, if purely spiritual, infinite. The "head of a pin" thing was shorthand for this, not an indication of any real concern with the absolute or approximate value of such a number.

"Point is, how do you set up a control group?"

Why would I do that? Physical science is by definition the wrong tool for the job.