Calling God a critter and expecting to actually examine Him...and I'm committing hubris...?
Well, not necessarily the "critter" part, but the rest is true.
Review basic scientific method ... assuming that you've learned it at some time or other, an assumption that is all too often very wild when applied to creationists. Hypothesis building and testing, which can lead to theory building and testing. You observe something and form a hypothesis to explain it. You then test that hypothesis and find it lacking, in which case you either modify it or reject it for another. You test that new/modified hypothesis and repeat the process.
OK, what if you want to use a supernaturalistic hypothesis. How do you test it? No, that is not a rhetorical question:
how would you ever be able to test a supernaturalistic hypothesis? We cannot observe the supernatural, nor can we measure it in any fashion, nor even determine whether the supernatural even exists. Science cannot work with the supernatural. We even had a topic here asking IDists to explain just exactly how their proposed supernatural-based science was supposed to actually work and no answer was forthcoming. Science cannot work with the supernatural, but only with naturalisitic causes and hypotheses, since we can observe and quantify those. This is called
methodological naturalism, which is entirely different from
philosophical naturalism that the Discover Institute falsely accuses science of employing.
So then, yes absolutely, if any god, including yours, is to be included in science, then we absolutely do need to be able to observe and to examine him or her or whatever. That's not hubris, but rather
scientific necessity. If we cannot, then the gods are absolutely useless as a scientific explanation for anything. Not as a value judgement on God or on any other of the gods, but rather because science cannot work with the supernatural.
And your {plural} hubris is in expecting special treatment in having science completely changed in order to include "God".
Edited by dwise1, : included the other gods