Great article.
The universe indeed poses many unanswerable questions. Belief in God may not provide scientists with the answers they seek, but it sure can relieve us of  the pressure brought on by our inability  to answer all things purely scientifically. Life's mysteries actually create for us a more interesting existence. The ongoing search of truth should never end, but it should be persued with the realization that the search has no end.

I live in Kansas, where the Board of Education was ridiculed for wanting to allow Darwin's theory of evolution to be taught critically.  Kansas was the butt of many jokes, implying that supporters of Intelligent Design did not believe that things evolve, or change over time.  Of course we believe that.  The definition of evolution that we do not believe is Darwinian evolution (macroevolution), which says that fish transformed into amphibians, amphibians into reptiles, and reptiles into birds and mammals, with humans having the same ancestor as apes.  Bacteria developing resistance to antibiotics is microevolution.

A few of the facts that deflate Darwin's 150 year old claims are;

1.  According to the fossil record, we see that animals first appeared suddenly (the Cambrian Explosion), not gradually over a long period of time.  And they appeared fully formed, with no evidence of ancestors.  

2.  It is impossible for a reptile to transform into a bird by natural process because they have completely different breeding systems, bone structures, lungs, and distribution of weight and muscles.

3.  There is no evidence of a "prebiotic soup" in which life apparently originated when all the right components "came together".

In the book The Case for a Creator, by Lee Strobel, the evidence of Physics and Astronomy show that "just about everything about the basic structure of the universe is balanced on a razor's edge for life to exist.  The coincidences are far too fantastic to attribute this to mere chance or to claim that it needs no explanation.  The dials are set too precisely to have been a random accident."

Intelligent Design may have religious implications, but it does not depend on religious primises.