I even saw where one top scholars who is an atheist stated that he had no other options but to conclude Intelligent Design, but, when asked about whether he believed in God and stopped being an atheist, he said that he wouldn't go quite that far.

Yeah, they've been weaseling out of admitting God's existence by pushing the "Simulation" theory for the past decade or so. I first heard it through Sam hαɾɾιs. In my blindness as an Atheist, I thought it was "profound" and "mind-blowing" in college, ignorant of the fact that it's basically an admission of there being a Supreme Intelligence.