The Insignificance of the Theory of Restricted Intelligent Design (RID)
Relative to the procedures used by RID to determine if a natural-system is intelligently design, there is no actual scientific definition for intelligence. Intelligent design is only surmised by a consensus of opinion that a pattern is specified via a describable purpose. This is termed as surmised intelligence. However, this notion is also rejected at least for the case where irreducible complexity is concerned. Many physical scientists consider many such patterns as not "intelligently" designed since the patterns need to be redundant in their view. Technically, RID depends upon human knowledge as to what constitutes relevant regular or chance behavior, language and it is cosmology dependent. RID is only interested in the nounal form of the word "design." After eliminating "regularities" as a cause for a design, RID attempts to show that the entire class of relevant probability models has an extremely small "chance" of producing the pattern. It is provisional in various ways where the most obvious is that it depends upon the complete knowledge of what constitutes relevant "chance" behavior or behavior caused by regularities. This basic assumption is rather dubious. The facts are that only if one accepts an additional cosmological statement, which cannot be tested in any manner, would RID have any application. One would need to accept that our universe is not a member of an infinite collection of non-interacting universes. (For details, see the link below.)
The General Intelligent Design (GID) interpretation for the GGU-model, technically, does not depend upon a specific language, human knowledge of what constitutes regular or chance behavior, or a specific cosmology. The GID-model investigates the verbal form "to design" and any RID design is a direct result of GID intelligent agency. RID is not testable or falsifiable in the ordinary sense of the word. But, the GID-model is testable and falsifiable. RID does not postulate any possible mechanisms that yield the designs that are declared as intelligently produced. The GID-model is but an additional interpretation of the GGU-model. The GGU-model is first and foremost a physical model that is a cosmogony. It is independent from specific cosmologies. The mechanism can even generate multiple-universes as well as parallel universes. Indeed, the GGU-model can be considered as a "larger" more complex physical environment in which universes are embedded. General Intelligent Design theory (GID) is but an interpretation for the signatures of the processes discussed in the GGU-model. Hence, the notion of what constitutes intelligent agency is specifically defined. GID is not dependent upon a cosmology and the GID interpretation cannot be eliminated by any argument based upon scientific logic. The book "Science Declares Our Universe IS Intelligently Designed" explains all of this in detail. For a more detailed comparison between RID and GID, see compare.htm
11/13/2005. Revised 05/20/2007