Tim Daneliuk wrote:

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2) above should be reconsidered. The High Priests of Science don't like
it - partly because they see it as being a dangerous throwback to an
anti-rational religion (it isn't inherently) and partly because, as a
matter of personal practice, ...

I don't see how you can seriously use the phrase "High Priests of
Science" and not that your proposition is a "throwback to an
anti-rational religion" basis for science. That's been my point all
along--bringing in a supernatural is not science by definition. It is
inherently anti-rational as it throws in a supernatural
"do-whatever/whenever" force that defies rational explanation.



... many of the High Priests are atheists (who
cannot bear the thought that they are not the highest form of
intelligence).

OTOH, many aren't but still don't think ID makes any sense...