The Problem with Christians

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If you stop being wrong, you may become right!

Entropy is entropy. Not information.
The term entropy can be applied to information as you pointed out, but that's not the physical entropy to which you allude when you desire to make "change of entropy" always positive.
Know where the analogy fails and you may come to realize how wrong you've been.

Living beings have become more complex at the expense of energy. Energy that mainly comes from the sun. And the sun is increasing the entropy of the solar system much more than any local dip in entropy on the surface of this planet.
That's it. Stop trotting out your ignorance of what entropy is and how it works.

What I asked was how the application of heat and cosmic rays, plus the occasional space rock add to the pool of information within the DNA. Any answers?

There are many very complex answers.
And Esq has provided you with a bunch of info and links to even more info on how that happens.

Sadly, for you, there's no simple answer.... except the erroneous "god-did-it".

LOL!
Does your brain work like a computer, now?
A good deal of it is dedicated to vision analysis - how many computers out there can see and recognize stuff like our brains can?
And, in parallel, process sound, smell, touch, balance, sense of self, keep track of where all our parts are and what they're doing.... keep track of the requirements of our own bodies.... and think.
Not to mention all the memory. How many neurons are dedicated to memory storage, recall, updating, etc?
Also... redundancy and poor evolutionary design... There are brains out there with more neurons per sq-inch than our own... we could be even better.

The point is that somehow we got from pond slime to a brain that has the the computing power (even if not utilized) of 38 quadrillion applications per second and none of it by design! There's a LOL for you. I'm starting to think this evolution thing is some kind of magic power guiding the forces of nature to go from random lifelessness to ever increasing complexity, all along representing absurdly large reversals in local entropy.

Somehow... and, according to the fossil record, it didn't happen in the blink of an eye, did it?
Why do you assume it did?

Have you ever encountered an endothermic chemical reaction?
[url=]Here are a few examples[/url], to refresh your memory:
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reaction of barium hydroxide octahydrate crystals with dry ammonium chloride
dissolving ammonium chloride in water
reaction of thionyl chloride (SOCl2) with cobalt(II) sulfate heptahydrate
mixing water and ammonium nitrate
mixing water with potassium chloride
reacting ethanoic acid with sodium carbonate
photosynthesis (chlorophyll is used to react carbon dioxide plus water plus energy to make glucose and oxygen)
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Being endothermic.... all these reduce the local entropy.
Show us where a god is at work, in them.

Well.... maybe, if you were to read the actual scientific papers, you'd find that the language employed is much more in line with "we think that", "this could be", "it looks like", "the analysis suggests", etc...

That isn't the kind of language used too often around here.

Maybe, because, around here, we use layman's terms?
Maybe because we think that the scientists are right in their analyses and copy the results as if they're proven beyond a doubt?

But.... evolution is a fact. The details may be up for discussion, but the overall notion that species evolved on this planet... that's proven beyond a doubt.