Why is their even a battle to put intelligent design in the public school?  Adam and Eve, who had received God's propositional revelation about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, decided to perform the world's first scientific experiment. They were faced with conflicting hypotheses and predictions about the consequences of a certain course of action. God had told Adam, who then told Eve, that if he ate of the tree, he would surely die. The serpent told Eve, while Adam watched that they would not certainly die, but would be transformed from mere men into gods. 

Rather than accepting God's Word on its own authority, Eve, acting like a Scientist observed the fruit, noting that it was good for food, pleasant to the eyes, and desirable to make one wise. Trusting her senses rather than God, Eve ate the fruit. Adam, it seems, watched her eat, for she gave the fruit, we are told, to her husband who was with her. Since Eve did not die as God had predicted, God's hypothesis was observed as wrong, and the Devil's hypothesis was right. Adam also ate the fruit. The entire misery of the human race began with Adam and Eve not believing God's revealed Word, with Adam and Eve relying on their own scientific observations, and subjecting God's revelation to an empirical test, a scientific experiment. Our empirical theologians and apologists are doing the same still today. Their efforts to prove or render probable the existence of God or the reliability of the Bible on the basis of experience and design have no foundation.  They simply do not understand that attempting to prove God or his Word in this manner is foolishness. 

God and his Word are the highest authority; they are the basis of all proof. There can be no greater authority, no more fundamental axiom. It is impious to suppose that the evidence of one's senses is in any way superior to the propositional revelation of God Himself through His Word.