That wasn't Asimov, it was Clarke -- any technology sufficiently advanced will be indistinguishable from magic.
A great cartoon that epitomizes the incompatability of evolutionary study and faith-based assertions. The entire principle of science is to consult experience to determine theorems. That's why it supplanted faith back in Galileo's day.
If someone wants to seriously suggest intelligence as a factor, and not just individual organism intelligence leading to selective survival advantages, then they have to offer a hypothesis as to how this works and a method to consult experience, known as experimental design.
It is possible that there is such a thing as non-local intelligence, but where it is centered or how to describe it is anybody's guess. My best, wild-ass guess is that it is a composite matrix of individual viewpoints creating a shared "knowledge space", but that is not a scientific theorem. It works as well as the Old Testament, though!!