To Anony Mous
You are wrong in assuming that the only way of creating information is by intelligence,
Darwin read “Principles of Geology” by Charles Lyell, whose central methodological principle was. ‘To explain the former changes of the earth’s surface, by reference to causes now in operation.’ According to Lyell, our present experience of cause and effect should guide our reasoning about the causes of past events. Lyell argued that when historical scientist are seeking to explain events in the past, they should not invoke unknown or exotic causes, the effects of which we do not know, instead, they should cite causes that are known from our uniform experience to have the power to produce the effect in question.
I am using the same methodological principle that is being used by the Evolutionist. Why am I being denied the same privilege?
In “Reconstructing the Past” – Elliot Sober stated that if historical scientist can discover an effect for which there is only one know cause, when the effect is discovered the action of the cause can be inferred with great confidence. Sober’s suggests that if scientists can discover an effect for which there is only one plausible cause, they can infer the presence or action of that cause in the past with great confidence.
X is necessary to the occurrence of Y = Y exist + Therefore, X existed.
This argument is logically and valid. A past cause or event can be established from an affect alone.
Scribes are the only known cause of linguistic inscriptions; therefore any tablets containing ancient script can infer scribal activity. Wide spread of volcanic ash will infer a past eruption. Where a particular past cause is known to be necessary to produce a subsequent effect, the occurrence of ‘the effect is taken as sufficient to establish the occurrence of the cause.” The only known cause of information is intelligence.
as a matter of fact, no new information has ever been created by an intelligent being. The net information in the Universe is zero - nothing - our Universe exists without any source of information or any producer of particles.
Webster defines information as ‘the attribute inherent in and communicated by alternative sequences or arrangements of something that produces specific effects.’ A block of binary code in a software program is information. DNA contains alternative sequences of nucleotide bases that produce a specific effect; therefore DNA contains information. DNA sequences are improbable and specifically arranged to perform, this is functional information similar to CAD – CAM.
To your point about biology: All living things communicate and reproduce using some form of information and we don't consider trees or frogs intelligent. Now, if frogs and trees can reproduce all by themselves without requiring any intelligence, why is it so hard to understand that cells can reproduce without intervention using DNA - you seem to accept that? Or that RNA can reproduce by itself - since you accept DNA (from single-cell bacteria to whales) reproduces, you have to accept RNA (viruses) are also able to reproduce without divine intervention? And since it's been proven and you accept ribonucleotides to structure and thus form RNA and "reproduce" without any divine intervention, we have gotten to the end of the 'chain' without yet requiring an explanation.
Note I am discussing the origin of the information not the ability to reproduce it.
This is where biology ends and chemistry begins. You probably have no problem accepting sugars and crystals forming without divine intervention right, you can see it happening in nature, when it snows. Or that certain chemical elements can form without divine intervention, you know being created in stars and in the earth's crust or when heated or exposed (rust) - there is no god required to make your car rust right? So where exactly do you need to insert a divine intervention (intelligent design) for life when all parts of "life" are clearly done all the time in nature without it?
Order {Redundancy} = ABCABCABCABC = NaCl NaCl NaCl NaCl [ Salt crystal]
HHOHHOHHOHHOHHO [snow flake]
{Mere} complexity. = alzntzxbct = random polypeptide or polymers
{Specified] Complexity = To be or not to be. = Functional DNA and proteins. [specified and complex information that performs a function].
Note the only molecules that are found anywhere in nature that exhibit such specified complexity and information is the gene expression system and the cell’s machinery. Everything else is redundant order or mere complexity. Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity. Crystals fail to qualify as living because they lack complexity.