Can mutation and selection increase information?

Ha! That's rich coming from a guy who goes on to use scare-quotes eight times. Words don't reproduce.

Consider a coin flip...If we knew all the information about the forces that were involved in flipping it and causing it to tumble around in the air, we could accurately predict which side it lands on because, technically, it is not random.But from our perspective it doesn't matter, we don't actually know which side it is going to land on so it appears random to us and gets the job done.It's similar for mutations. The physical organism is what interacts with the environment and the mutations are to the genome that is buried deep within. The mutations may not, technically, be random in that there are causes for them, but from the perspective of the environment and its interactions with the physical organism, the mutations have the appearance of being random from the perspective of the environment.The environment is blind to the alleles and only sees the phenotype. From that perspective, the mutations are random even if they do have predictable causes at the genetic level.Mutations are random "with respect to fitness", not purely random as in a completely non-predictable manner.Make sense?

Wow, you wrote an whole lot of words to end up saying nothing at all

At the genotypic level, they don't even have to be random in that they're not necessarily stochastic - but that still doesn't mean that they aren't random from the perspective at the phynotipic level.

At the genotypic level, they don't even have to be random in that they're not necessarily stochastic - but that still doesn't mean that they aren't random from the perspective at the phynotipic level.

That's cool, but if you're talking about the Theory of Evolution, you should understand that when mutations are referred to as random, it means with respect to fitness.Going on about some other kind of randomness isn't talking about the Theory of Evolution.Like I said, it's cool, postulate all you want. Just don't act like your talking about what the theory says.