Information Theory Questions and Answers

How does information theory support creation?

• Putting a frog in a blender?
• The Marvellous ‘Message Molecule’ (DNA)
• Information, Science and Biology (Technical)
• Man’s achievements vs amazing ‘living computer’ technology
• Brave warriors with words
• Unravelling the knotty khipu code
• How information is lost when creatures adapt to their environment
• Creation question: snowflakes
• Creation in a basket
• Creation’s amazing computer
• Evolution? It doesn’t add up!
• How is information content measured? (Technical, sceptic’s letter plus reply)
• More or less information?
• Information: A modern scientific design argument
• Order or Chaos?
• That depends on what your definition of “information” is (Semi-technical, sceptic’s letter plus reply)
• Life’s irreducible structure—Part 1: autopoiesis

Do evolutionists have any examples of mutations or evolutionary processes which have led to an increase in genetic information?

• Was Dawkins stumped? (refutation of criticism of a video of an interview where Dr Dawkins failed to provide an example of an evolutionary process that can be seen [today] to be adding information to the genome)
• The adaptation of bacteria to feeding on nylon waste
• Bacteria ‘evolving in the lab’? (Refutation of Lenski’s evolutionary hype on citrate-digesting E. coli)
• Copying confusion—does duplication of existing DNA help evolution?
• Genetic algorithms—do they show that evolution works? (Semi-technical)
• New plant colours — is this new information? CMI scientist answers a skeptic
• Refutation of Richard Dawkins’ anti-creationist book Climbing Mount Improbable (Semi-Technical)
• Refutation of Richard Dawkins’ anti-creationist book Unweaving the Rainbow (Semi-Technical)
• Dawkins’ weasel revisited (Semi-technical)
• Weasel Words: Refuting a common ploy to persuade people that evolution has been ‘proven by computer’
• Weasel, a flexible program for investigating deterministic computer ‘demonstrations’ of evolution (Semi-technical) download program (895 kB zip file))
• The problem of information for the theory of evolution: have evolutionists really solved it? Technical refutations by Dr Royal Truman (on True Origins website) of the antitheists:
  • Dr Richard Dawkins
  • Dr Tom Schneider
• A scientific critique of evolution [mutations and information] ((Technical) Dr Lee Spetner refutes Dr Edward Max; on True Origins website: Part 1 & Part 2)
• The Unsuitability of B-Cell Maturation as an Analogy for Neo-Darwinian Theory ((Technical) Dr Royal Truman, True Origins website)
• Is antibiotic resistance really due to increase in information? (Semi-technical, skeptic’s letter plus reply)
• Evaluation of neo-Darwinian Theory using the Avida Platform, by Dr Royal Truman: Part 1 and Part 2 (Technical, PDFs, from International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design)
• Spore: new game allows players to ‘evolve’ creatures; should creationists be concerned? (see also a response to critics of this article)