Yeah, but they usually limit it to just that, a force.
Once you begin to speak about intelligence they disregard what you say...
When it is conceived that the conditions for life are in extreme precision, a theist asks, "how then did life begin if it was not by a higher intelligence?"
Then, the atheistic scientist replies with, "given a universe of infinite possibilities and over billions of years, it can happen."
Then, of course, you have to point out to the unwise that infinity must be *infinite* in all aspects not contradictory to itself. Hence, infinity must be infinite in intelligence. Otherwise you cannot speak of it, without falling half-wise to some conception as infinity being merely an entityless force...
Also, when I say "..in all aspects *not contradictory to itself*", I mean, for example...
For one to conclude, based on my statement of "infinity being infinite in all aspects", "well, then infinity must be infinite in finiteness."
that is contradictory so it must be disregarded, absolutely...