 We will not pursue that dispute here except to note that even if the case is made that ID could not count as proper science, which is  controversial,[14]  that would not in itself demonstrate a defect in design arguments as such. Science need not be seen as exhausting the space of legitimate conclusions from empirical data. In any case, the floods of vitriol in the current ID discussion suggest that much more than the propriety of selected inferences from particular empirical evidences is at issue.