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Natural selection doesn't assume any intelligence in the process. It is based on the random process of genetic changes through natural mutations.

Once again, if I'm walking through the woods and come across a book laying on the ground, is it more reasonable to assume that an intelligent being created a book full of information or that the book naturally came into being after "random" genetic mutations over millions and millions of years.

The basis of life is information, it's what seperates the inanimate (i.e. rocks) from the animate (i.e all life). Life moves and does so with a purpose as is explicit within its fundamental molecular structure, DNA. DNA is the building block of life and contains all the necessary information for an organism's continued existence and replication. The claim that the proteins necessary for life naturally came together in the beginning in the exact proper order with the needed information and data from which life could reproduce by mere random acts is statistically absurd. You might as well believe a book possessing the information on how to build a house came together by "natural" mutations too.

"Once again, if I'm walking through the woods and come across a book laying on the ground, is it more reasonable to assume that an intelligent being created a book full of information or that the book naturally came into being after "random" genetic mutations over millions and millions of years.
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When books begin to reproduce themselves, then we can talk again. This is no better than your automobile analogy.

> if I'm walking through the woods and come across a book laying on the ground, is it more reasonable to assume that an intelligent being created a book full of information or that the book naturally came into being after "random" genetic mutations over millions and millions of years.

*One* book on it's own implies an intelligent agent. A planet covered in books busilly consuming each other and available natural resources and breeding more books... that implies natural forces. Weird natural forces, maybe, but natural.

That's why the lame watch/Mustang/book analogy is just... lame. It's not well thought out, in that it does not do a good job of analogizing reality. There *is* more than one organism on the planet, you know.