And that, not complexity or a lack of complexity, is the core
claim of ID -- that one can distinguish the natural from the
artificial or intelligently made. If SETI claims that such a
distinction can be made scientifically, then the idea that one
could distinguish the natural from the artificial in biology is
not unreasonable. Despite what this article claims, both SETI
and ID are doing the same thing. SETI assumes, without any
existing evidence, that extraterrestrial intillgence may exist.
In order to find evidence of such ET intelligence, they look for
evidence of signals which have characteristics that would
distinguish the artificial from the natural. ID assumes, without
any existing evidence, that a creator of some sort may exist. In
order to find evidence of such a creator, they look for evidence
of pheonemna or features of life or the universe that would
distinguish the created phoneomna from the natural. Both start
with no evidence and propose finding the evidence by looking for
created features among