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• justinvt - Jul 08 2006 | shannon information theory complexity evolution

  Claude Shannon's groundbreaking paper which attempts to define information and communication mathematically. This is a must read for any evolution theorist, or Intelligent Design Proponent, as many people have a hard time understanding exactly how we conventionally define information in math and physics.

  For instance, the argument that mutations in DNA, because they are random, delete information from a genome and decrease the overall informational content of a chromosome is completely and provably wrong, according to Shannon's definition of information, which is the most widely accepted. In reality, a purely random deletion or substitution MUST add information because it is summarily unpredictable and incompressible by any known compression algorithm.