I do not ascribe to the notion of "intelligent design" in any form. Not until we have affirmative evidence, or even reasonable leads that some sort of consciousness put the universe together in some intended or haphazard way. At current, there is no reason to see it that way from an evidence standpoint. We should continue to follow our intuition and seek answers for why our universe is the way it is, but always let the evidence guide us.
The way I see it, many things simply
are. This is a notion few are comfortable with, and I fully admit I am not entirely comfortable with it either. We all like to feel protected or safe in some way, and the idea that there is no protection or meaning in anything can easily lead to a person becoming afraid of many things. So much of the world is left to chance, and yet equally if not far more things are emergent. It seems to be like one of the fundemental rules of the universe is that chaos reigns supreme, but it all ultimately exists under constraints. Specifically, patterns. There are so many patterns in everything that all ultimately funnel back to
the standard model (although it's becoming increasingly suggestive that even this is not the fundemental bedrock of everything). As the basic building blocks of everything seem to operate under constraints and rules with some baked-in rule breaking, it seems quite reasonable to expect that everything emergent beyond that point will mirror this idea. In fact this is what we see.
I was watching a Veritasium video earlier today that touches on this idea of order and chaos being emergent in many fundemental things that seem interconnected. This is deeply fascinating and for me brings a richness to the world and in a way gives it meaning, because it shows that there is a fundemental interconnectedness with basic operations in the universe. Why? We can't seem to really say yet, but we should continue to search. Perhaps the answer really is "it simply is" (I think that is most likely), but we won't know unless we keep searching.