With respect, I think that DE, DM, and the UDF, when taken together, are actually pretty good arguments for a designed universe.
The UDF especially. Atheists cannot invoke the Anthropic Principle on that one. (AP is their fallback position when cornered about how improbable life is.)
There is simply no way we ought to be able to see so much cool structure at billion light-year distances like this. Not by chance. And AP can't explain away that one because life can exist just fine on Earth without it.
I agree.
We are coming full circle here and there are those in the “popular” science that are refusing to recognize this.
Do you think DE/DM will or can ever be more than an assumption ?
Discovered ?
Detected ?
Measured ?
You know, basic science.