RE :"ID *is* a scientific theory because it is the only theory that explains all modern transgenic animals "
What are you talking about? , ID doesnt explain anything. It says that life appeared in some unspecified form, you are not proposing how. Even the Creationists propose a creator, but ID stops even before that with a designer. It's meaningless.
ID says 'it was done, and we can never know how". The exclusion of identifying the creator/designer, while used as a legal trick to get it past the liberal courts makes it even more un-scientific. It means that lack of evidence, is called evidence, and lack of a theory, is called a theory. Then any arguments against evolution are recast as evidence of ID/design/creation. So called ID evidence is now related to probabilities of some evolution model specified by the IDer:
P(design)+P(evolution) =1.0, and P(evolution)=10(-1 big number).
So P(design) =1.0-10(-big number) = 1.0 ,
So making up your own model for the opposing theory and calculating a small probability number for it, without proposing your own alternative and is cited as evidence for your own so called theory ID. Note: Creationists used this same proof and were outraged when it didn’t fly. In 1970s and 1980s,
P(creation)+P(evolution) was =1.0 and P(creation) =1.0-10(-big number) = 1.0
Incorrect.
Intelligent Design explains, scientifically, all modern transgenic animals such as pigs that have their DNA modified such that they grow human hormones in our labs. Evolutionary Theory fails to explain those sorts of transgenic animals, by the way...