Authoritarianism and Science have had a bad marriage throughout history. Science is really only science when someone asks a nonconforming question and starts making the case against something that everyone thought was "true". The rest of the time, scientists laboring in the fields of specialty are more like priests copying the dogmatic texts of tradition, fashioning ever and ever more masses of dogma. . . . .
So I don't doubt that things change, and will change across time well beyond my powers of projection. And I don't think it takes a single point of Life to speak the word and "create" everything. I think every aspect of "life" is inherent in the whole wide universe, and where ever there is cognition there is a potential for action that may reflect some kind of "intelligence". I won't call this principle "God", though, and I think "God" has hung ten on this wave for a good long while, and that others have gone before Him doing as much in their own time. . . . and many more will do as much in time to come. . . . .
The dogma of "evolution" as a repudiation of a traditional view of "God" is a denial of the human capacity for intelligence, as well as a denial that anything else is intelligent. It might be true of the people who believe this stupid dogma and use it justify their pride and arrogance like a club for beating down the little old "church ladies" who have tried to teach them to be "good boys" or "good girls". . . . but truly I can't even stomach making a joke about them because it is just that horrific that people want so badly to justify their disbelief they will attack the very basis of scientific investigation to do so.
Not even an Amoeba is without intelligence and choice or the power to act to preserve and propagate "life", and is therefore an illustration of "intelligent design" in it's own actions within its own scope of life.
As the Bible says, all things demonstrate the reality of God.