Jason Rosenhouse has a follow up post on SETI and ID, responding to Dembski's reply to Seth Shostak's article debunking the link between the two. Well worth reading.
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I've never been a fan of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. It's like playing the lottery obsessively, throwing down lots of money in hopes of a big payoff, and I don't play the lottery, either.
on Skeptically Speaking, recording live today.
One of the standard arguments we hear from ID proponents is the analogy between SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) and ID. Their argument is that SETI researchers use the same basic premises and inferences that ID does in the search for radio signals from alien civilizations.