Ok, I'll bite. How does one incorporate a reference to the supernatural in a scientific inquiry? Just stick a little parenthetical in saying "here a miracle occurs" and hope no one notices?
How does one incorporate a reference to the supernatural in a scientific inquiry?
That is NOT what intelligent design theory is all about. We are NOT talking about a SUPERNATURAL designer. But a designer. Once one goes beyond nature into supernature you are beyond the realm of science. But ID scientists DO NOT make any assumptions about the nature of the designer but make the assumption that molecular machines appear to be designed - hence there is most likely a designer of some intelligence behind these machines. The designer may be dead - some being or beings who has died or the designer could be supernatural - a deity. But the nature of the designer is NOT what is at issue - it is whether molecular machines, DNA and its program are designed or not designed based on information theory and other scientific assumptions about when something is designed verses when something has come about by blind luck.
Say, hypothetically, that some "supernatural" force causes giant talking stalks of broccoli to get up and start mowing your lawn for free. Is it your view that science would be inherently incapable of taking note of that event?
To put the question more seriously, as long as something has an observable effect on the real world, what's to prevent it from being reachable through scientific investigation?
"Just stick a little parenthetical in saying "here a miracle occurs" and hope no one notices?"
Actually, given the probabilities involved in the "goo to you by way of the zoo" theory that is pretty much what evolutionary scientist have done.
The jerk says he's not a scientist, then he proves it by falsifying the premise of science.