I’m not sure you are reading him (or me) closely.
The movie Contact doesn’t even appeal to irreducible complexity. The concept itself is not even well defined (Which Irreducible Complexity?). Even if design is detectable, maybe it isn’t by IC.
You have some question in the table, but maybe they aren’t our questions, I very much encourage you to read to understand and to be understood. Don’t just repeat the same thing we’ve heard before. Expect that disagreements will persist, but we could understand each other.