"This is not a true statement."
You were replying to RadioAstronomers statement that ID implies a deity. If you are disputing the fact that ID implies a deity, I agree. It could be ANY higher power, such as an alien race, which falls fully within the realm of science. THough we all know the ONLY peiople who espouse ID are fundamentalists who see the IDer as GOD.
Second, if you are saying that positing a deity automatically causes the hypothesis to fall outside the realm of science is false, then you could not be more wrong. A 'magical' being who just makes things happen can never be a conclusion in science. We tried that for 1500 years, it was called the dark ages. In which case Radio is practically right and you are technically right.
Is Crick a fundamentalist? According to Panspermia, a "higher" power is not necessarily the case, is it? I say this honestly questioning. I may hold a faith position, as many darwinists do, but fair treatment of ID theory is denied by the harbingers of the scientific process...I think because many of them fear or detest those who find hope in it.
Second, if you are saying that positing a deity automatically causes the hypothesis to fall outside the realm of science is false, then you could not be more wrong. A 'magical' being who just makes things happen can never be a conclusion in science. We tried that for 1500 years, it was called the dark ages. In which case Radio is practically right and you are technically right.
I don't see it that way. I do not think that the invocation of "magical" enhances your position other than rhetorically, but I do appreciate (how sad I have to say this) being addressed thoughtfully. I do not think, either, that anyone expects scientific acknowledgement of "A" deity. To acknowledge the possibility is sufficient. There is no proof of alien life either, yet science is better-prepared to accept its existence without said proof because of probability. ...something ID is rather interested in. Sorry, but the "dark ages" comment is a stretch.
Well, if everyone can be right, then kumbaya...baby.