Information's role in evolution.Should we put it more in the picture?

This argument was pretty much refuted in your previous (though still active) New theory about evolution between creationism and evolution. thread. How is starting another thread saying the same thing going to advance your position?What you have is a solution without a problem. First you have to make the case that current scientific theories are inadequate to explain the specific phenomenon of heritable change over time, as well as the phenomena of material change in general. You have not done this. Even had you done so, you still haven't described a credible mechanism for how any of this informational transfer actually works. Simply saying that it could work that way is not the same thing as providing evidence that it does.

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Your beliefs do not effect reality and evidently reality does not effect your beliefs.
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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill

You're referring to this article in The Boston Review. I certainly don't know enough biochemistry or genetics to determine whether or not his claims have merit, nor can I tell exactly how they relate to your own hypothesis. I leave it to others with more knowledge to make an assessment.

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Your beliefs do not effect reality and evidently reality does not effect your beliefs.
-Theodoric

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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
-Steven Colbert

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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill

And since the overwhelming majority of life on this planet, past and present, has evolved and flourished without anything like a nervous system or neural network of any kind, your conjecture has dropped dead before leaving the starting gate. This horse is dead no matter how hard you beat it.

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Your beliefs do not effect reality and evidently reality does not effect your beliefs.
-Theodoric

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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
-Steven Colbert

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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill

It's done by natural selection, of course. Information transfer has absolutely nothing to do with natural selection, and if you actually understood natural selection you'd see that the cognitive processes of individual organisms have very little if anything to do with it. In fact, the whole beauty of natural selection is that it works as an unguided, blind process, with no input from or concern for those being selected.Now if you want to discuss cultural evolution and Dawkins's meme hypothesis, that's something else entirely.

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Your beliefs do not effect reality and evidently reality does not effect your beliefs.
-Theodoric

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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
-Steven Colbert

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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill

Honestly, this whole discussion reminds me very much of my 5th grade science fair project, which consisted in its entirety of a poster with drawing of a big vertical spiral, like a spring stood on end. As I remember it, the accompanying text said that if time had a corkscrew or spiral shape, then we could travel through time simply by jumping from one level of that spiral to the next. End of hypothesis.My memory might be faulty after so many years, but I think that there was reason that my display didn't feature a working model of a time machine based on my hypothesis, and it wasn't because my father didn't have a workshop in the garage.

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Your beliefs do not effect reality and evidently reality does not effect your beliefs.
-Theodoric

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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
-Steven Colbert

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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill

Um, it also happens to be true.

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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
-- Carl Sagan

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Your reply appears to be missing something. I think that it's called data.

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Your beliefs do not effect reality and evidently reality does not effect your beliefs.
-Theodoric

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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
-Steven Colbert

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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill

This statement is the best and most concise statement of your position to date. Thank you for clarifying.I suggest that you cut and paste this and use it for all future replies on your part. It will save time.

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Your beliefs do not effect reality and evidently reality does not effect your beliefs.
-Theodoric

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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
-Steven Colbert

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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill