Objection: God of the gaps — and the response from information theory

The "God of the gaps" objection: you're just inserting God as a placeholder for ignorance. Response: intelligent design is not an inference from ignorance but from positive knowledge. We know from uniform experience that information (codes, language, digital data) is always produced by intelligence — never by undirected physical processes. This is the principle of uniformitarianism (the present is the key to the past): when we find biological systems with information content, the best explanation — following the same causal reasoning used throughout science — is an intelligent source. This is also the methodology used by SETI, which would distinguish intelligent signals from natural noise precisely by their information content.