The SETI community doesn't run around proclaiming that ET exists. The ID gang, on the other hand ...
Good point, the SETI people are all about gathering data and performing analysis on that data to provide evidence to either support or deny the hypothesis that intelligent life could exist elsewhere within our galaxy. So far, the results deny the existance of life elsewhere in the galaxy, however, the experiment is as yet incomplete. ID seemingly attempts to call the hypothetical a theory by not producing the reproducable and falsifiable evidence to support a designer.
There is a possibility that intelligent life could exist elsewhere in the galaxy, I can accept that. There is no compelling reason to believe that intelligent life exists elsewhere in this galaxy until there is some independently verifiable evidence to support it.
Same holds true for a designer of the universe.
Hey, you're right! Neither does SETI claim that finding ET will save society from its descent into nihilism caused by godless "materialism".Can anyone suggest ways in which the methodologies of ID and SETI differ? They seem identical to me: Either they are both scientific, or both fail.
The SETI community doesn't run around proclaiming that ET exists. The ID gang, on the other hand ...