Intelligent Design

[Whateverist]

Right, but what happens in instances where you eliminate every known hooved animal? You then have to start to think outside the box, and suppose it may be explained by something we have not yet seen. But yes, I agree we should turn known causes before we turn to things that we don't know can cause it.

Indeed, but since we haven't yet eliminated every mundane explanation in the case of god claims, nor even come anywhere close to it, there's no reason yet to explore beyond the box. Or put another way, the box of explanatory causes is, to date, sufficiently large.

Put another way, to explain a thing is to show how it fits functionally with everything else we think we under understand.  So to explain something by appealing to something altogether apart from everything we understand is inadequate.