Thank you, AG.
Just to kick off the future discussion: intelligence suggests purpose, awareness, direction, thought,.....maybe some of those but not all....maybe much more.
It may be helpful in this discussion for the correspondents to keep in mind a "least common denominator" for the property of intelligence.
This will have bearing on the next two definitions of hypotheses that AntiGuv wants to explore vis-a-vis intelligent design: panspermia/cosmic ancestry and collective consciousness.