Intelligent Universe:

None of the documentaries or articles I have viewed or read so far have mentioned that the universe might be considered sentient or intelligent. 

An argument can be made. Think of it as follows:

–-A variously estimated four and a half billion years ago, an immense hydrogen cloud in an outlying arm of the Milky Way galaxy condensed into a stellar mass large enough to spontaneously ignite. The nuclear furnace of the Sun was lit. 

--The Sun’s gravitational mass drew into its accretion disc elements of interstellar debris generated within short-lived giant stars that preceded it, went nova, blasting into surrounding space all the chemical elements that were fused from hydrogen within their nuclear furnaces. 

--Our solar system of planets and satellites condensed from leftover debris generated by such events, and those elements became the building blocks of the eight planets, more than a hundred satellites and swarms of asteroids in our star system. 

--Conditions friendly to life were created on at least one planet-–Terra. 

--It follows then that the elements generated within giant stars eventually evolved into intelligent life on this planet. We, as intelligent beings, evolved from that matrix of star dust. 

--A universe that evolves intelligent creatures is, by definition, intelligent, that intelligence arising from the ultimate manifestation of the underlying principle of all life–-natural selection--the binary code of evolution.

--As part of that creation, we have to conclude that the universe, in all of its awe-inspiring beauty, is also intelligent and aware of itself, because we, as constituents of it, are having this discussion. 

--When we focus telescopes such as the Hubble on endless star fields, nebulae and galaxies in all of their majestic glory, we are looking at Creation itself, the basic processes that gave life to our species, and that creation is intelligent. If you’re looking for God, you might be inspired at this point to stop and think about it.

--Darwin has explained creation to us and Hubble has shown us pictures of it that surpass anything one might view in the Sistine Chapel or the Dome on the Rock, wonders that drew our eyes toward the heavens before we evolved the technology to actually view them in detail.