Does ID follow the scientific method?

Behe is one of the leading proponents of ID worldwide. You are not.Science does not have to address every scheme cooked up by some amateur with delusions of competence.But it is interesting that most of the proponents of ID seem to have very different ideas of what it does and how it does it.Perhaps you could all get together and agree on your definitions of terms, methods, types of evidence, hypotheses, and tests. Until you can agree among yourselves you are nothing but a rabble making a lot of noise.Get back to us when you have something, eh?

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Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

Is this what Behe meant in the Dover trial when he used a definition of science that included astrology?

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Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

ID is not designed to find an answer--to IDers, the answer is already known. Instead it is designed to support that answer.Unfortunately (as you point out) rather than follow the scientific method and test alternate causes they focus on a single cause and ignore, misrepresent, or deny any evidence that points to other causes.Perhaps the prime example of this is the RATE Project, although this may be considered more a creationist group than an ID group.The RATE boys set out to test the decay constant. The group included a number of qualified scientists, and they used scientific equipment and tests. What their evidence showed is that the decay constant had been stable for some millions of years at minimum--in other words, scientists were right and their religious beliefs were not supported by the evidence.They did the only thing a creationist/IDer could do: they ignored the evidence and stuck to their religious belief.Here are a couple of reviews of the RATE Project that discuss this creation/ID version of the scientific method in more detail:

Assessing the RATE Project: Essay Review by Randy Isaac

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Do the RATE Findings Negate Mainstream Science?

Edited by Coyote, : Missed a word

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Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.