You state that all living things are capable of some level of sense perception. But why would they develop these sense systems originally since they would have no idea that the outside stimuli (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell) even existed. So what do you base this upon?
The idea that living organisms contain many of the same features and functions among species proving evolution also falls flat when you consider a unicycle, bicycle, tricycle, car, and jet plane - all have wheels but only a simpleton would rationalize that the jet evolved from a unicycle. The devices all posit an intelligent designer who could have used aspects of one device when engineering the next.
As for the programming aspect your argument confirms my reasoning - YOU as a designer improve the program, the program doesn't improve itself.
AIDS is a lentivirus (a slow moving virus) and part of a group called rhino-viruses. It is NOT a new species. Viruses by their NATURE are programmed to modify themselves to ADAPT. The flu does this every year. Yet no one sees the flu becoming a new species. It is still the flu. Forms of AIDS have been discovered in monkeys and now scientists are stating it may have been around in different ADAPTED forms for centuries. If humanity hadn't been consuming AIDS-tainted monkey meat (SIV), the transfer between species would probably never have occurred.
If you put up an umbrella in the rain, wear shorts in the summer, or put on a heavy coat in the cold - you don't become a new species. You've simply ADAPTED to your environment. Speaking a different language doesn't make you a different species. It means you have ADAPTED to the cultural environment you're in.
Molecular biologists are not moving towards Darwinism as fact. The truth is they are seeing errors and holes throughout its theories. If the same rigor surrounding math and physics were applied to the field of evolution, it would collapse like a house of cards. Many of its greatest adherents are secular philosophers who couch their arguments using scientific terms but cannot prove evolution because it is not a repeatable process and fails under the guiding principles used for science. I would posit the real driving force is the desire to eliminate God and the very element of moral influence which pervades American thought and the world view of Christians.
Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Kepler - all Christians. Christians embrace God and the knowledge that the discoveries of science time and time again demonstrates the Creator who put these things in place.
Darwinism is nothing but a flat-earth theory for biology in a 21st century world. And just as the world hated those who spoke of our planet as a round orb or the sun as the center of our solar system - in time Darwin and his theories will be exposed for the many deficiencies, outright lies, and manipulated fraud to push an agenda.
“And just as the world hated those who spoke of our planet as a round orb or the sun as the center of our solar system”
Please be careful - a few from your side still believe the Earth is the center of the know universe.
“Evolution” is spontaneous generation in slow-motion! Or would be if it could be.