[js1138]

Designer pigs and designer bacteria are simply cut and paste jobs. If you want to prove ID, design an entirely new biological function, create the gene that will produce it (careful not to harm the organism's viability) and deliver the working product.

My point is there is no way to predict viability from code structure or "information".

If you want to make ID a science that would be a good line of research; demonstrate that you can make something entirely new that will survive. Demonstrate that you can predict the outcome of a previously untested mutation.

[Southack]

"Designer pigs and designer bacteria are simply cut and paste jobs."

Well, our genetic programming abilities are still in their infancy, I admit.

Nonetheless, it is man's Intelligent Intervention, not natural, unaided "evolution" that is responsible for the examples that you mention above.