What exactly is ID?

Are you daft? Based on just the presence of a signal and the way it is modulated we'd know their minimal level of technological achievement. and based on the direction we'd know where in the sky they were. Based on the content of the signal we'd know whatever they care to tell us, maybe that they have two heads and three legs. If they tell us the original frequency of the signal then we'd know their motion relative to us, and if it reached cosmological levels of red shift then we'd know they're outside our galactic group.SETI does not hold as a fundamental premise that it isn't possible to learn anything about an extra terrestrial intelligence whose signal they eventually detect. If they're ever successful they expect to find out a great deal about them.This is in stark contrast to ID, which unlike any other field within science and in the absence of any evidence holds as a fundamental premise that it isn't possible to know something, specifically, anything about the designer.Care to try again? Can you name any other field within science that in the absence of any evidence holds as a fundamental premise that there's something we cannot know?--PercyEdited by Percy, : Grammar.Edited by Percy, : Clarify.

Hi Smooth Operator,You seem to be having trouble understanding the question. It's irrelevant what you believe about SETI. It's what SETI believes about SETI that counts.So I repeat the question yet again: Can you name any other field within science that in the absence of evidence holds as a fundamental premise that there is something it isn't possible to know.I hesitate to clarify because it seems that the more words that are written the more opportunity it affords you to veer off the path of rationality, but ID holds that it isn't possible to know anything about the designer. It is ID, not me, saying things like this from Of Pandas and People: So can you name any other field within science that makes an equivalent claim? Note once again that an affirmative response to this question must involve what this scientific field says about itself, not what you say about it.--PercyEdited by Percy, : Improve clarity - probably pointless, I know.Edited by Percy, : Grammar.