It might be classified as unconnected if it didn't lead to research and didn't predict things. What is your alternative scientific explanation for the ability to predict where to dig for intermediate fossils and to predict what will be found? What alternative scientific explanation predicts nested hierarchies in both the fossil record and in DNA? Why do living things that are known to be designed fall outside the nested hierarchies?
“Intermediate fossils” - forcing the model on observation.
Yes, perhaps you’ll find certain fossils in certain places because that’s where those animals lived, but I must say, this is the first assertion of this “proof” that I’ve heard of.
“Nested hierarchies”? Wow, that sounds a lot like OOD, Object Oriented Design - definitely signs of an intelligence involved in the Creation.
“Know to be designed” - you mean, created by man.
This would be like wonder why a sculpture created by another sculpture didn’t have the same characteristics as the first sculpture.