On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Todd Moody wrote:


> That's peculiar.  Both SETI and archeology are scientific
> searches for intelligent design.  Are they also about the
> supernatural?
>
> One of the differences between Intelligent Design and creationism
> is that ID theory makes no assumptions about the identity or
> character of the designer.  If intelligent design falls outside
> the range of science, then SETI and archeology are not science.
> Indeed, if we take Dawkins at his word here, there are no social
> sciences at all, since the behavior of rational agents is
> generally excluded from the category of "natural processes."
>

Physics is concerned with what lies within the universe. The study of
what lies
outside of the universe may be amusing, but it is not science, as
science
requires observation, and what lies outside the universe is not
observable, by
definition. One can not say that ID theory makes no assumptions about
the
identity of the designer and is also scientific. If ID theory is
scientific,
then any designer must reside within the universe.


Andy.