Again you seem to have fallen victim of flawed ID reasoning. Science
does not rule out intelligence a priori. Simple as that.
As to your question about new complex information forming by chance,
genetic drift would be an example but of course chance is not the most
likely pathway, chance and selection are far more able to generate new
information. Examples include the work by Schneider or Adami or Lenski
or... well
On 9/13/07, rpaulmason@juno.com <rpaulmason@juno.com> wrote:
> I appreciate the pitfall of an Intelligence of the gaps theory
>
> but how would you scientifically detect the action of an alien biologist if you rule her out a priori?
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> If you found a dead person on a deserted island - would you automatically rule out murder? What about pirates?
>
> Is there a good example of new complex information observed to have formed by chance? For example isn't antibiotic resistance is due to the elimination or damaging of a gene and not the formation of a new one with new information.
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> Paul
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