We have seen that building a Cambrian (or any other) animal would require vast new, functionally specified digital information. Moreover, the presence of such digitally encoded information in DNA presents, at least, a striking appearance of design in all living organisms. As Richard Dawkins observes, for example, “The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like.”10 Similarly, biotechnology pioneer Leroy Hood refers to the information stored in DNA as “digital code” and describes it in terms reminiscent of computer software.
