Likewise, allowing "information" to be misappropriated to mean determinism or physical causation inadvertently advances the atheistic activism — in this case, as if to say that information is a naturally occurring phenomenon which could give rise to life from non-life when there is no naturally occurring evidence of the elements in the Shannon model (message, sender, encoding, channel, noise, receiver and decoding!) Oh dearest sister in Christ, you are my favorite "math geek!" Thank you so much for this splendid essay/post!
It seems to me that, in general, the debasement of language — of the meaning of words — eventually leads to a condition where people cannot even understand one another. Talk about constructing a new Tower of Babel (Babble)!!!