Give Us a Test

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One of the problems with 'intelligent design' is that it seems to be a matter of interpretation. "As you, informed citizen that you are, look carefully at the world around you, and at the universe in general, do you find any evidence that the designer of all this was intelligent?"

Opinion will be divided, which brings us to the crux of the matter: how to devise a test? What test of the hypothesis could possibly be devised?

Take another example: Were somebody to propose a 'Theory of Malevolent Design' and offer evidence for it (and there is abundant evidence), how could such a theory (or postulate or conjecture) be tested?

Modern Science is based on the testability of hypotheses. No test, no science. Philosophy maybe; religion maybe; opinion maybe; myth maybe; but not science.