Quote Originally Posted by Jaimecbr900
Although there are lots of scientific variables and equations yet to be able to be solved by conventional means. In other words, couldn't it be asserted that sometimes certain things can also be explained by "divine intervention"?
How would you go about it? When is something dumped from scientifically provable to divine intervention? Let's take the motion of the planets for example. For a while it was believed that the stars were controlled by God (or Gods) and that was that. If we had accepted that and not probed further, we'd have never understand orbital mechanics. Proposing divine intervention does not open up new paths ways, it just discourages you from looking further.

The ID people basically just say life is so complicated, there must be some being that created it. So what if we don't understand something, God did it? You know how horribly that mindset would retard scientific progress. The worse that happens if it was divine intervention is we hit a dead end. If it's not and we write it off we have just closed ourselves off to an entire realm of understanding.