Look, you want a situation where "information" can be added. Look up polyploidy and then find out its effect on plants. Then take a look at the
salsify plant.
You keep arguing that you can't add information to the genome. What you have done is simplified the problem to such an extreme that you ignore other relevant information. First off, if you are talking about the full set of chromosomes in a gamete, then I have news for you - one gamete is only part of what non-haploid organisms need. Non-haploid organisms, such as humans, need more than one set of chromosomes in order to develop; the development of many organisms require more than a single set of the genome. Some organisms need two. That means that you can add information to the development of an organism by increasing the number of chromosomes used in development. We call that polyploidy. For instance, there are species of animals, including humans, where polyploidy can occur, thus adding information to the development of the organism. And polyploidy is very common in plants, as I'm sure any botanist could tell you. In fact, polyploidy in plants may be a contributing factor in the speciation in plants. The
salsify plant is just one example.
In short, there are many more factors to the development of an organism and adding information through extra chromosomes to influence the development of an organism is not only possible, it happens quite a bit in plants.
In addition, the complexity of an organism bears no relation to the size of the genome. The human, a more complex organism, has 3,200,000,000 base pairs while the lowly amoeba has a whooping 670,000,000,000 base pairs.
Ironically, while the creationist principal may be sound; that is, the evolution from some single-cell organism to human may have resulted in a net decrease in the size of the genome, the reasoning behind that principle is not. This, of course, is purely speculation on my part and should be taken with multiple grains of salt.
To sum up, adding "information" to the development of the creature is not only possible; it happens often. Speciation through this addition may occur and actually has occurred based on numerous observations of plants of which I have mentioned the
salsify plant. And the addition of information is not the only way speciation, and ultimately evolution, can occur. I think the argument you need to make from now on is how the addition, maintenance, or deletion to the factors that affect an organism's development do not cause evolution to occur.
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