Ammo

 

for the apologist:

:-).

So?

Functional proteins could have assembled themselves

 from their amino-acid building blocks 

without preexisting genetic information in DNA directing the process?

Interesting.

Natural selection and adapting to ones environment doesn't explain the genetic information in DNA.

Where'd that come from?

I'll be waiting for your answer.

Meanwhile:

"...building a living cell in the first place requires assembly instructions stored in DNA or some equivalent molecule."

It's all about the information contained in DNA.

Where did that come from?

"As Francis Crick lamented in 1981, "An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going." 

In 2008 in the film Expelled, Richard Dawkins publicly acknowledged that "we don't know" how life originated in the first place and even speculated that the information in DNA might represent a "signature of some kind of designer." Not a divine designer, though. He proposed as an "intriguing possibility" that an alien civilization evolved elsewhere in the cosmos and then "designed" and "seeded" the first life on earth."

Years earlier, in 1973, in a scientific paper in the astronomy journal Icarus, Francis Crick and his colleague Leslie Orgel advanced this same hypothesis, which they called "directed panspermia." Later Crick revisited the hypothesis at greater length in the book Life Itself. 

That figures as prominent as Dawkins and Crick, ardent defenders of evolutionary theory and a materialistic approach to science, would posit such speculative hypotheses only underscores the depth of the origin-of-life problem and the closely associated enigma of the origin of genetic information."

(Anybody ever brings up Dawkins to you?

There ya go.

These people would rather believe their own fables than admit the word of God to be true.

It's okay for Dawkins to believe his own fable?

But foolish for you to believe in something when you have seen the changed lives it has produced? 

It's utter nonsense.

Information, much like matter and energy

doesn't just create itself on it's own.

Where's the evidence of it doing so?)

"Henry Quastler

"the creation of new information is habitually associated with conscious activity"

Genesis 1:27

"...humans are in the image of God in their 

moral, 

spiritual, 

and intellectual nature."

More to follow I'm sure.