Evolving New Information

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I will go away but I will lurk to see if any of you can provide any real documentation.

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My reference is The design Inference written by William Dembski.I've read it. Have you ?

You haven't got it quite right. The individuals who are heterozygoous for sickle-cell get enough resistance to malaria to outweigh the (limited) negative effects they suffer. It's only individuals homozygous for sickle-cell that get the full version of the disease.On the whole the mutation is beneficial (because having it in the population is positive) and the frequency is maintained by selection.
It'll just never reach fixation, because of the drawbacks.

You stated that Percy's definition of "redundancy" was obviously different from yours.You then stated that Percy should have quoted additional sentences which do not add to the definition and that your meaning was "exactly" your interpretation.Obviously your claim to come from another universe must be true, since in ours "obviously different" does not mean "exactly the same".