[Fester Chugabrew]

What good is a claim you can't test?

Yeah. What good is the claim that the bioshpere is essentially the result of an evolutionary history from molecules to organisisms to arrangements of organisms to self-awareness as experienced by the only biological entities known to practice science and write it down?

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Yeah. What good is the claim that the bioshpere is essentially the result of an evolutionary history from molecules to organisisms to arrangements of organisms to self-awareness as experienced by the only biological entities known to practice science and write it down?"

It's testable. ID isn't; you even admitted as much. You said,

""You have no empirical tests to establish or confute the idea of intelligent design."

That is true. That's why it isn't a scientific claim; science demands testability.