"Matter has never been observed apart from both intelligence and design."
This is very cryptic. Do you mean that it takes intelligence to observe a rock? Again, we are getting into the if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound type of philosophical sophistry.
There's nothing cryptic about it. Yes, it takes intelligence to observe a rock. It also takes design. How else is any information going to be conveyed so that the observer knows he is looking at a rock as opposed to a Freudian slip? Both intelligence and design are needed before science can even get a start. Understand?