One submission has come from a company called International Databases, LLC. It's a one-man operation run by Stephen Sample, who says he has a degree in evolutionary biology and taught at the high school and junior college levels for 15 years.
The material he submitted consists of eight modules dealing with current issues in biology and ecology. Most are well within the mainstream scientific consensus. But there are two that deal with the origin of life. Those sections say the "null hypothesis" is that there had to be some intelligent agency behind the appearance of living things. It is up to the scientists proposing a naturalistic explanation to prove their case.
That makes a mockery of the scientific method (and half-way decent theology too). The null hypothesis is not "a wizard did it" (I'm not mocking religion here: he said the intelligence is not necessarily God). If that had been the baseline, modern western civilization would not have come into being (and you wouldn't have a computer or electronic device to read this on). The null hypothesis is simply that that theory is not true.
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