[trashcanbred]

Science can, has, and does operate very well under the assumption that an intelligent designer is behind those things science investigates.

When? What subject does that? Quantum Mechanics? Particle Physics? Volcanology? Meteorology?

[Fester Chugabrew]

All of them can work under this assumption. It is merely a backdrop, just as no author of a book needs to have his name mentioned in every sentence.