What is pseudoscience and why is Intelligent Design considered pseudoscience?

[Tim]

@John_Harshman

@colewd

Without the design method as an alternative common descent has no useful alternative to test against.

There is no design method.

I think he may be talking about Behe’s ‘method’ of baldly asserting that some systems involve a "purposeful arrangement of parts’, so the system must have been designed.