Detecting design or intent in nature

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Evolution is a model, trying to describe as accurately as possible what happens. It's not a system that acts on life forms, it's not an entity with any sort of intent or goals.

Whatever happens with life on our planet, it's part of evolution. Everything we do is just another step of evolution, the fact that we consider ourselves or other things within it "intelligent" is irrelevant.

At best, some external intellect arranged for abiogenesis to happen, and then left it to run from then on. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest any sort of outside influence on what we have found out about evolution. There's also no reason to think an external intelligence was involved in abiogenesis, either. That's mere speculation.