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Author Topic:   Information Theory and Intelligent Design.
Brad McFall
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Message 8 of 102 (384818)
02-13-2007 7:15 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by Doddy
02-13-2007 1:58 AM


Re: Both mutation and selection may increase information
I would suspect that a biological change (evolution or not) perspective *may* (depends on one's ontology regardless of any given epistemology it seems to me)suggest that information (used in part to know biological change and form-making)is designable should a structural design provide invariants to a temporary functional design that may change by chance effects.
So I would not say that there is something "in" information that makes it designed when it comes to any difference between a natural process (evolution and otherwise etc) and one man-made, but rather that functional designs of biological forms might be "reverse" engineered to extract "information" provided there were already structural desiins that "has design on"(an interest in) the information itself involved in the abduction/ordinating of the data in the process.

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