Of course it can. We see the clear result of known processes, and you substitute a purely hypothetical and uselessly vague process for which there is no evidence of existence, and you call that an equal footing?
Dunno. Has it been given a mechanism for self-programming? Is there evidence for that mechanism? Does the AI robot also get random mutations?
If it’s possible for genomes to be stacked in a way that naturally occurring mutations will produce new protein functions then ID supporters should not be asking for examples of naturally occurring mutations producing new protein functions. Even Behe thinks ID can be falsified by mutations that happen in real time:
T the longer the sequence the larger the number of ways to arrange the sequence.
Evolution does not get any credit for evolving partial enzymes if it is claiming that it can explain the diversity of life.
If you are conceding that it cannot then we have common ground.
I will take this as a tacit admission that random processes can produce function.
Yes we have common ground here 