Formally what is described there, Snail, is a process in which a hypothesis "that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection" is tested by looking for evidence that are consistent with it. In principle that's the same procedure as was involved in the search for the Higgs Boson.

My point isn't that this "research" stands up to critical analysis, but that critical analysis is the correct way to challenge it.
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It occurs to me that if the idea were accepted that the way to explain the apparent improbability of the "fine-tuning" of the universe (and other apparent improbabilities) is to propose that this arises because there is a large or indeed infinite number of universes, and we inhabit one which allows us to exist, this in fact does imply a kind of programmed selection or design, with the designer being us, acting retrospectively.