That's because I don't agree that such a step is even necessary in order to establish the validity of the theory. As I said, not knowing what was said on those tablets in no measurable way diminished our certainty that they were intelligently designed. We therefore didn't "need" to decode them in order to come to that conclusion. We did it anyway in order to get more knowledge about them.
"As I said, not knowing what was said on those tablets in no measurable way diminished our certainty that they were intelligently designed."
Their being written partially in Greek didn't hurt either. :)
"That's because I don't agree that such a step is even necessary in order to establish the validity of the theory."
ID doesn't need to be tested? What makes ID so special?
Do you have any background knowledge on what a designed organism would look like, especially one designed by some nonhuman designer, the way we did for the Rosetta Stone.