Yes, there is plenty of data to tell us what the assumptions should be.
Darwin has been shown to be a total and utter fraud. Life as we know it is many orders of magnitude more complex than his stupid little world.
Everything points to an agent cause, every piece of code we find in nature is so perfect, and by the Law of Entropy every scoundrel who preaches that information can arise out of chaos stands condemned by his own conscience.
Who can run from God? He is everywhere. Christ in front of me, Christ behind me, Christ on my left, Christ on my right, Christ below me, Christ above me...
Yes.
This is what is posited by the theory of Intelligent Design.
ToE posits a process while ID posits an underlying cause, and they are not mutually exclusive.