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For Lurkers: The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories
The above peer reviewed article provides an excellent summary of the alternative scientific points of view concerning the origin of body plans.
The origin of information (especially biological information) is a poison pill to large scale evolution theory and various forms of atheism and agnosticism.
As a thought experiment, compare a live skin cell to a dead skin cell and meditate on the difference. The difference of course is information which Shannon (paraphrased) defines as "successful communication". When the biological form communicates within itself and its environment, it is alive. When it does not, it is dead.
Science cannot dismiss the question "what is life?" without first answering the question "where does information come from?" Thus far, I have seen no accepted theory for a materialistic origin of information in the universe. This poison pill is as devasting as the cosmological fact of a beginning to anyone who would want to deny God.
Additionally, the linked article raises geometry as a poison pill.
For example, the DNA itself - and all the proteins and underlying chemistry - are not adequate to explain the origin of form in four dimensions (3 space and 1 time). Body plans emerge because of the geometry. Moreover, there have been virtually no new body plans since the Cambrian explosion which is a relatively small segment of the geological timescale.