[inquest]

We obviously could be highly certain it was artificial

Well, that's my point. As others (on the pro-evo side) have said on this thread, absolute proof is pretty much found only in mathematical theorems. Everything else is just a matter of probability.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Well, that's my point. As others (on the pro-evo side) have said on this thread, absolute proof is pretty much found only in mathematical theorems. Everything else is just a matter of probability."

But we don't just accept a theory because it MAY be plausible, we have to TEST it. We need evidence. ID can't can't do that. We believe the ToE is the best theory available because it makes plausible statements that we can test, have tested, and the evidence supports.