Intelligent Design

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That's exactly how you compare competing hypothesis. We know that a designer could explain the specified sequence. We don't know that mutation could explain it. You can't demonstrate either in a lab because they both rely on a special, non-repeatable event. Laboratory science can't study historical events

Then in that case nobody has any reliable historical records.

All historical field studies defer to lab analysis for authenticity testing and date validation (got that from the school of James Michener ).

Maybe for things like carbon dating, but the subject of history has its own method of comparing the validity of primary sources for descriptions about the time period. I'm no expert on history, but the lab can't replicate events that are defined as unique and unrepeatable events.