“No, I do not. Because human science will never, ever, be able to grasp, much less measure or predict, God. Do you see a problem?”
Science does not necessarily need to “grasp, much less measure or predict, God” to detect evidence of intelligent design. Why some people have such a hard time grasping this concept is beyond me. Does SETI need to identify the source of an message from space to determine that the message came from an intelligent source? Of course not.
Oh, by the way, British Astronomer Fred Hoyle believed strongly in ID even though he also professed to be an atheist. So obviously he didn’t think that ID necessarily implies that God is the Intelligent Designer.
Interesting statements. Let's discuss them, please:
Detecting, deciphering, whatever you wish to call it, Intelligent Design would be, in fact, purposeless unless we could act on that knowledge. Would you not agree? Other than saying "God did this", there is nothing else to be learned, correct? Unless you are suggesting that man, once we have detected God's design in a cell, can now copy, modify, and even improve upon God's work? If you are not saying that, then WHAT is the point or purpose of detecting design - specifically design of divine origin? I can think of none. Help me out here.
Let's move to your second statement, which appears at a glance to equate SETI's mission with ID's intent. Or is it? Is SETI there to detect and measure God's cosmic messages? Could mankind do anything with such data? We both know the answer to those questions: no. However, SETI's true missions fouses on alien (non-divine) communications. Could mankind do something with that data? I believe most of our best and birghtest think so.
What I am trying to focus on here is what can be done with the data. Please tell me what can be done with data collected from a divine source, because I can think of nothing.