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Chaos makes differences, it's survival that selects and refines it.
Chance is only part of the story. Chance genetic variation in offspring provides the range of fitness on which selection acts.
The evidence is all around us, the whole point is, a complex working system has to be designed and created, it cannot just happen, it would be like saying that a computer could just happen by itself, thinking that complex systems can happen without intelligent design and manufacture goes against the laws of physics. A mechanical system whether biological or otherwise must be designed, it is too complex to rely on chance, it would be astronomically impossible, there is your evidence.
"It's all around us" is just another way of saying "it's obvious".
Brave? no, just reasonable inference. The aesthetic and level of intelligence demonstrated are those one would expect of a natural evolutionary process and the results precisely match that statistical profile; so it seems unreasonable to suggest it's the deliberate product of intelligence. Occam's Razor applies.
I think you are missing the point.
Much of our DNA is non coding.
That isn't the argument. The argument is that an intelligent mind wouldn't design a system that is indistinguishable in structure and function from the product of natural evolutionary processes, because an intelligent design would show some evidence of intelligence. I.e. it is not reasonable to invoke intelligence as the proximate cause for something indistinguishable from the result of processes not involving intelligence.
But that is still saying that complexity can compound and be enhanced just by chance which is something that would have to programmed into the original design, because no design gets better on its own impetus unless its included in the design, that's how machine systems work.
It can. It's trivial to describe how it is possible.
The point is that it is not just by chance that it gets better or more complex; it's by chance and selection. Chance provides the random variations in fitness. Selection eliminates less fit variants, filtering the population so that what's left is the fittest variants, and they will make the next generation.
But couldn't that be simply attributed to an adaptive system that was written into the original program that allows living systems to adapt and survive in various environments, we can program a digital system to do that, to a certain extent, but not with the same complexity. Do we assume that just because it is biological then it must just somehow magically happen on its own impetus. Does the creations of man mimic the creation of God, in the sense that they operate with hard information that has inputs, outputs, and frequencies interacting in order to operate biological machinery?
Sounds like Logic to me, the stuff that every digital system starts and operates with, this is one of the attributes that digital engineers are working to achieve, an intelligent system that can operate and adapt to almost any environment, as the science gets better so vision gets clearer, I think maybe we are sometimes missing something because we do not want to see some of the things that have light shining on them now. A system that has hard information reacting to inputs and frequencies to create outputs is "Logic" and that must be written.
