Myth identifies things as real without attempting to justify such identifications. Ultimately, there is no rationale or justification for myth because it is through myth that reason itself is identified. Apart from such a revelation, it makes no sense to try to talk about things. To such objections metaphysicians often reply that the attempt to understand the nature of reality is not concerned with being true as much as with being helpful in making sense of life. Life is a physico-chemical process and mind and thought are only electrochemical activities of the brain.
Intelligence is the evolutionary result of chance events in the development of the universe.
There is no purpose or plan in the development of the universe. Otherwise, such terms are nonsense. Mental vocabulary is misleading and should be deleted from our speech. Just because we speak about ideas and intentions, that does not mean there are such things. For clarity's sake we should abandon such ways of speaking.