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Because you are using “information” in a way that doesn’t fit. If indeed new information was being programmed into life like I program a computer, then yes, that would be an indication of design. If a bird didn’t know how to eat a seed, then suddenly did with no other mechanism that could be observed, then you might have some data to build on. But we do have a mechanism that does not require thinking or a pre-existing design. It only requires existence. Existence requires existence will continue to exist. It doesn’t require a desire to exist or something else making it want to exist.

The only evidence we have is for increasing complexity. A storm in the ocean starts out as a small disturbance and becomes increasingly complex to create a hurricane, but that is not a gain in information. We, as information processing creatures have more information about the bigger storm, but the water drops, the ocean, the heat that is generated, the gases that are swirling around will all change into something else when they hit land and dissipate. They aren’t information. They don’t care that they are a storm or have any information about being a storm. They won’t absorb into the land, find their way into the ocean and become a better storm next time. It’s only our vantage point that says the disturbance “grew” into a storm.