Interpreting paleontology and biology as implying intent rather than random modification requires more special pleading. When you dig in, it really looks like random changes, dead ends, silly useless changes, stuff that serves one purpose and then gets repurposed for something else, leftover bits and bobs, and constant recycling of ideas. At best, this requires a creator with an odd mindset, and ends up evidentially indistinguishable from randomness.

The Fermi paradox is barely relevant. How much truth do you really think you can extract from an absence of evidence? Really? Because if lack of evidence of communicating technological civilizations (active in the particular tiny timeslice in which we're paying attention) implies lack of existence of any complex life outside of earth (and yes, you seem to need Earth's complex life to be unique for your argument to work), you've got some real thinking to do about the evidence for God or any other creator, especially after you've admitted their actions are, at best, tricky to distinguish from random chance.

Besides my previous point about reading intention into nature, courts of law are not scientific. Among other differences, they operate in a context where intent is much more likely to be actually present. Why would you even bring that up? Except that it's an old creationist talking point, I guess.

Conveniently ignored my main point. Why should I have to take anything you say as meaningful if you are just a random mutation?