[js1138]

"The" scientific method is something of a fiction attempting to describe what scientists do. Actual methodology is often invented specifically to solve a specific problem. The acceptance of a new method is left for review and followup.

If you think you can force working science to conform to a dictionary set of rules, you are wrong. In science as with the rest of life, it's easier to get forgiveness than to get permission.

[grey_whiskers]

In science as with the rest of life, it's easier to get forgiveness than to get permission.

Great. Even on a crevo thread, you just summarized the Fall of Man and the Redemption :-)

[caffe]

This is especially true to Darwins crowd; they can call themselves anything they wish but it is still your basic atheistical approach to creation.
Scientists do define rules of true science but if they break their own rules it is forgiven. Yet they throw hissy fits to advocates of ID. They are afraid of exposure , an examination of their lies, misrepresentations, and lack of scientific vigor. Light always exposes the darkness of their illusions.