[Alamo-Girl]

Doctrines and traditions are not considered "theory" - but indeed, it is the tendency of groups to splinter off - usually based on greater/lesser/different emphasis on specific doctrines or traditions.

[js1138]

Doctrines and traditions are not considered "theory" - but indeed, it is the tendency of groups to splinter off - usually based on greater/lesser/different emphasis on specific doctrines or traditions.

I have no idea where you are going with this.

I asserted that saying "nature did it" is different from saying "god did it" because one can follow up by describing the processes of nature in ever increasing detail.

You have described ID as the claim that some unknown and unnamed entity having unknown abilities, limitations, methods and motives, did some unspecified thing at unspecified times.

This is not at all equivalent to saying in ever increasing detail, that all living things are related by descent, and that all physical sciences -- physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy -- must support this conclusion, and that all evidence discovered from this time forward, must be consistent with the claim.