The problem is that all the things that creationists point to as evidence for ID can just as easily (and usually more easily) be explained by evolution, as Michael Behe's pwning in Dover, Pennsylvania ably proved. There is simply no evidence anywhere that unequivocally points to an intelligent designer and nothing else. The issue of "God did it" isn't about motive, it's about falsifiability. God cannot be disproven, so he cannot be employed as a scientific cause. God can do anything, he doesn't need to leave any evidence of his work behind, and he doesn't need to follow cause and effect or obey the laws of physics, so there is no way to investigate the God hypothesis scientifically. "God did it" is a philosophical brick wall that stops rational inquiry dead. As the introductory sign to the Creation Museum in Kentucky puts it, "Don't think. Just listen and believe." With God, that's all you can do.
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