The fact that life can swiftly create complex information is one reason that we can know that we do not live in a random cosmos but rather one that shows evidence of design. Here’s a passage from A Catholic Case for Intelligent Design by Fr. Martin Hilbert (Discovery Institute Press 2024) that illustrates the point via the enduring mystery of the Cambrian Explosion of life forms, well over half a billion years ago:

It is true that there are some fossils from before the main event of 530–525 Mya, but they are far from sufficient to explain the astounding variety of forms that emerged during the Cambrian. A second tack is to argue that the Cambrian precursors must have been soft-bodied creatures, and soft-bodied creatures don’t fossilize. But that is clearly not the case, because many of the Cambrian fossils were themselves of soft animals. University of Cambridge paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Simon Conway Morris thinks that to have escaped detection via trace fossils, any such putative ancestors would have had to be less than a millimeter in length, and what traces there are from this period may not even be from an animal, but rather from, say, “strolling protistan ‘slugs,’ analogous to slime-mold Dictyostelium.”

An important point to be clear about: The Cambrian wasn’t merely an explosion of new species. It was an explosion of entirely new phyla or body plans. Phyla are a high-level classification in the Linnaean system. The categories, in order from most general to most specific, are domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. According to Darwinian theory, it takes the evolutionary process much, much longer to create entirely new phyla than it does new species, and yet in the Cambrian more than twenty new phyla seem to appear out of nowhere. There are presently a total of thirty-six phyla in the Linnaean system; three arose in the Precambrian period; twenty or more, in the Cambrian; four, in later geological periods; and nine are represented only by existing forms.

“Life’s History and the “Ode to Joy,” Evolution News, December 2, 2024.

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Whatever forces scrambled the worm genomes then simply mapped out new ones, successful for hundreds of millions of years. Chaos does not do that.