The problem with ID in biology is not that it is assigning a cause which is not “a naturally occurring phenomenon.” ID advocates will no doubt say that their cause does, in fact, occur in nature, whether or not that you believe that it does. The problem with ID in biology is that 1) we know vast amounts of biological organizations that came to be without being caused by intelligence, and 2) we know that there lots of other biological organizations that might have come to be without intelligence, and 3) we have not yet seen any case which clearly was caused by intelligence. Given those three facts, if you come upon some organization and do not know how to explain it, it is more likely than not that the true explanation does not involve intelligence.
All of these factors apply to the case the supposed extra terrestrials.
It is true, of course, both in this case and in the case of ID advocates, that they might be right. It is just very unlikely.
The problem with ID in biology is not that it is assigning a cause which is not “a naturally occurring phenomenon.” ID advocates will no doubt say that their cause does, in fact, occur in nature, whether or not that you believe that it does. The problem with ID in biology is that 1) we know vast amounts of biological organizations that came to be without being caused by intelligence, and 2) we know that there lots of other biological organizations that might have come to be without intelligence, and 3) we have not yet seen any case which clearly was caused by intelligence. Given those three facts, if you come upon some organization and do not know how to explain it, it is more likely than not that the true explanation does not involve intelligence.
All of these factors apply to the case the supposed extra terrestrials.
It is true, of course, both in this case and in the case of ID advocates, that they might be right. It is just very unlikely.