Two thoughts, one which satisfies the limits on science set by scientists and one which doesn't.
Life does not exist outside of our solar system which is scientific because it is eminently falsifiable but probably not true.
Life exists outside of our solar system which is not falsifaible because there are infinite places to look for it and we would need infinite time to find it, hence that proposition is not falsifiable and thus not science but probably true.
Weird, eh?
SETI is OK by me though. Pure science is a good thing and constitutional as well.
But SETI and ID are very similar concepts - just different applications.
Good post! SETI's fine with me, too, though I have my doubts that we'll ever find any life out there. But then, who knows?
One has to wonder if evolution is falsifiable. If someone tomorrow proves that the earth is 6,000 years old, the evolutionists will announce that this just means evolution happened faster than previously thought. If a mechanism is discovered limiting variation, they'll announce that the mechanism itself evolved after everything else evolved. If God Himself were to appear to us, they'd announce that He evolved.