Here, I'm going through a huge spanner in the works....what's wrong with having an intelligence behind it all. Regardless of how "unsound" and "religious" it might seem, having some sort of higher sentience/intelligence behind the works doesn't mean it has anything to do with religion, or faith or anything else. It's just a natural part of the order of things. Just because it feels "unscientific" and that you have no empirical evidence for its existence, doesn't mean it's a load of crock. Maybe you do have all the empirical evidence you need, you just can't see the forest for the trees. Or, you don't have the means to prove either way because you don't have the tech to do so, as yet. Yes, it may not exist, but we just don't really know...do we
But, then again, maybe we do know it exists but just don't want to accept the possibility because in our head long rush to become smarter and more enlightened, we've actually lost sight of the most important aspect of the whole exercise of wanting to learn more and become more knowledgeable....to become more enlightened
You can learn much, but still know very little.