The creative action of a conscious and intelligent agent clearly represents a known and adequate cause (one “now in operation”) for the origin of specified information. Uniform and repeated experience affirms that intelligent agents can produce large amounts of functional or specified information, whether in software programs, ancient inscriptions, or Shakespearean sonnets. The specified information in the cell also points to intelligent design not just as an adequate explanation, but as the best explanation (Fig. 9.12). Why? Experience shows that large amounts of specified information
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