I just ran across this pair of web pages:
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The first is pro-ID. The author mentions how information is always the product of an "intelligent mind" and how it "cannot develop of its own accord." And DNA is information and that proves it had to be designed. Then it makes like 8 more points.
The second one is a response to the first web page. Its author goes on at LENGTH about information theory and ignores the rest of the first web page. It says that the "intelligent mind" condition for something to count as "information" is the idea of William Dembski. And it talks about Dembski and his theory and tries to show why it's wrong.
So, is it wrong? I remember Dembski was one of the special witnesses that the Dover, PA school board was going to call in their court case about Intelligent Design. And he's got real credentials. PhD math from U. Chicago.
So, what's the verdict? Is Dembski's information theory as good as Shannon's? And if you accept it, do you have to accept Intelligent Design?
-DE
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