@the joint: You say you believe in God as the intelligent designer. Do you believe God exists now or simply did exist but not anymore?
Yes, He exists, and His existence is dual in nature. On one hand, He exists as an absolute monistic entity; on the other hand, He simultaneously exists in terms of stratified constituents of His monistic self. We are such stratified constituents, and we, too, are intelligent designers. This serves to explain the claim that "God made man in His image." We are isomorphic to God, at an infinitely smaller scale.