Darwinian or otherwise, the claim that an intelligible universe populated by intelligent beings can come about wholly apart from intelligence, design, or some combination of the two can only be described as something other than emprical science.
Do you fully understand how God came to exist? If not, then you are simply pushing the problem back. Any way you look at it, the origin of existence is beyond our understanding.
Can you provide a quot from anywhere other than yourself for the above statement. Exactly who made this claim? Is it philosophy?