Peter Noone, of Herman's Hermits? "Selecting" does not imply anything other than the best fit for current conditions (anything else is a creationist strawman). As for the "starting sequence," it did not spring full blown as Athena from Zeus's head (as some creationists evidently postulate). It evolved as a successful self-replicating molecule. It needn't have started at its current length; it could have started with only a few nucleotides in the pre-biotic environment and bootstrapped from there.
If you postulate an intelligent designer, you need to show evidence of such. I do not need to disprove your assertions, I simply need to show such an entity is not necessary.
You have evidence of this, where?
If you postulate an intelligent designer, you need to show evidence of such. I do not need to disprove your assertions, I simply need to show such an entity is not necessary.
There is information, despite your unwillingness to acknowledge same, in the DNA. You have not shown, by any stretch of the imagination, that the "entity" is not necessary. There are certain minimums for life, and replication...and they are quite complex. You are, in essence, attributing the "original state" to some sort of "black box" status. And evolution is clueless in trying to explain it.