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Look at it this way wolfsbane. Imagine if you had a theory that could actually decide, in a scientific way, if something was designed. It would be an unprecedented advance. The actual codification and formally definition of what makes something built by an intelligence different from something formed naturally.

It would be used even by the most ardent and biased materialist, simply because of the vast implications it would have in complexity theory, e.t.c.
(From a mathematical point of view I couldn't imagine the areas it would open up)

The simple fact of the matter is that intelligent design isn't well formed enough at this stage, otherwise the ability to do what it claims to do would be used quicker than you could imagine.

It is therefore not at the stage of being a scientific theory. It is a collection of polemical arguments. I'm not even saying they're bad ones, but they are not yet scientific ones.

Remember the old Creationism thread where I couldn't get JC to tell me the mathematical specifics of Intelligent Design?