Scientists are not afraid of "intelligent design", they just realize that ID is nonsense and not a science.
Torie, origin of life is a domain of biogenesis and you can read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogenesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life
So the Taiwanese glow-in-the-dark pigs are the product of nonsense, and not science?
Biogenesis is only another concept like Evolution, and others....they actually don't explain anything and serve the same purpose as theories. The fact that one life form makes another still doesn't explain the beginning of new life....
"It should be noted anything divine cannot be "proven" since it cannot be tested nor queried. Whereas possible avenues of abiogenesis can be scientifically explained and tested."
****** It's not proven because man does not have the knowledge nor capability to prove it. It's like a primitive trying to prove that computers exist in the civilized world.........with only his words and primitive tools.....
If it's not a science, then scientists has no basis for determing whether or not it's nonsense. By that reasoning, art, poetry, music, emotions, society, are all nonesense. You can measure wavelenghts of light, analyze pigments chemical content and determine how the paint was put on the canvas, and it doesn't tell you a thing about what art is really all about. How limited.
It may be that, but different domain subsets have meaning, and to claim the Darwinist/Evolutionist posit about how non life became life is to muddy the waters for tendentious purposes in my opinion, in order to flay an over-reach strawman that isn't there.