intelligent design
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"sure they can... I'm not sure what you mean by "producing information" (making things up?), but natural evolutionary processes can produce ever more complex organisms with ever more complex informationn encoded and passed on to subsequent generations in the DNA."
-----------------------------There is no question that DNA is programmed to pass along different sequences of it's core hard-coded information. But this demonstrates design. The information is coded for specific body plans. But what we are talking about here is an unguided mechanism sufficient enough to generate mutations which would ultimately produce novel species. And there is none. What science observes in nature is only information loss in adaptive mutations. Science recognizes adaptive mutation due to environmental factors, diet, etc... What science DOES not observe is macro scale information-gaining mutations which produce novel species. This requires the manufacture of irreducibly complex organisms, which natural selection would prevent from ever happening. The key is: don't confuse small adaptive changes within a species with large scale genome jumps from one species to the next. The former is true, the latter is myth.
The bottom line is, the natural mechanism which darwin expounded upon is given far more credit than it deserves. It's incapable of producing novel species, no matter how much time you give it. Now that we can peer inside molecular structures, we know that life at it's core is intelligently coded information and machinery which natural processes, even with billions of years, cannot produce.
In Darwin's day, a cell looked like a blob of gelatin. That's as far as they could go. We have new data. It's time to put that new data in place and educate people with current science.