Disagree with sentence #1.
Two categories encompass the whole:
Natural
Supernatural
I continue to assert that science cannot address the second.
In the first category, natural, there are
intelligences less than humanity, chimps, for instance,
humanity
intelligences grater than humanity
The last of these is still a null set. But efforts such as the SETI
experiments continue to look for instances.
What the ID people are saying is that ID arguments suggest the set my not
be null. Yes -- they also say the evidences possibly point to the
supernatural. Both are possibilities. I assert that the first is
"science" and the second a valid philosophical inference from that
science.
Prediction. In the next 20 years SETI will discover evidence of what is
now the null set above. At that time, we are going to see some
interesting philosophical hoops jumped through.
Burgy