caliber,
I don't disagree with facts. I disagree with the sophistic, rhetorical abuse of "logic" (which precisely falls into the category of "intellectualisation", even though it is poor intellectualisation imo) by which the theistic apologist infers from facts to an "intelligent" maker or designer.
The flaw is obvious. It extrapolates from one limited field of observation (human craftsmanship and industry, where artefacts are indeed "designed" and "made" by external "intelligence" and "action") to everything, extending a "reasonable conclusion" far beyond its area of validity, in spite of overwhelming evidence that "intelligent design" is not the way things work outside of the sphere of human activity... to modern theists, the structure and form of clouds, mountains, rivers, trees, animals, constellations are no longer "designed" and "made" but the result of the free interplay of "things" and "forces"; even human language is not the product of "intelligent design" in that sense: nobody ever sat down to design and build the English language with its vocabulary and grammar "rules". Human intelligence was implied of course, but internally, in a gradual, collective, and mostly unthought process of structuration.
But, somehow, the pattern of craftsmanship/industry must leap over those huge areas of observation where it obviously does not apply, to be posited as THE only valid explanation of everything... as the creator gods of old were warriors or genitors, potters or builders, the modern "God" is an architect or designer. The same anthropomorphism is at work, Gods in our image -- and a very reduced image of man at that, man as craftsman...
The appeal to "faith" at this point is the sugar-coating that helps intelligence to swallow the highly unlikely -- or, using other metaphors, to close its eyes and jump over the huge logical gap, to bend and twist "straight" intellectualising ... I don't despise "faith" at all (quite to the contrary) but I think it can work in better ways than interfering with the intellect in "shortcut" fashion.