Okay... why the comment about hatching a cow then if you know that to be a ridiculous scenario?I'm not an evolutionary biologist, but I believe that I can answer at least in the ballpark about where new information comes from. Basically, it is changes/mutation in DNA. These can have many causes; transcription errors, insertion of viral DNA, radiation and other environmental influences, etc. Most times, these changes can do basically nothing, or cause something negative like cancer or other genetic diseases. Once in a great while they are beneficial, for example making a moth a color that is harder for predators to see in a particular environment. That mutation will eventually become part of the standard genetic code, rather than an odd exception.It isn't so much dumb luck. Think of it more like buying millions of lottery tickets every day for millions of years. It wouldn't be luck or divine intervention when you hit a bunch of jackpots, it is actually statistically probably. Similarly, every bit of DNA in your body has a chance of mutation when it is replicated. This happens in billions of your cells every day, and in the billions of cells in the trillions of other creatures, every day. This has been the case since life began. It would be surprising if there had been no changes that stuck around in all that time. Much like the lottery tickets, however, most of them are losers and end up discarded.