Alien Physics: Scientist Offers Novel Escape Hatch from Intelligent Design

As I've said before, intelligent design can take or leave extraterrestrial life. It doesn't affect the cogency of ID arguments one way or the other. Materialism, on the other hand, must have ETs and the more intelligent and advanced, the better. After all, human life can't be special, therefore something like us must be replicated across the cosmos.

The problem is that the universe offers no hint of objective evidence for ETs. So the race is on to find plausible rationales for why the heck...