[Dan Evans]

I don't think it is necessarily true that there is "information" in the genome. For example this fractal image was created with nothing but the formula:

Z' = Z^2 + C

There was really no other information. No artist drew it and it wasn't a product of evolution. Yet it appears to have patterns and appears to be a product of intelligent design.

[Dark Knight]

I don't think it is necessarily true that there is "information" in the genome. For example this fractal image was created with nothing but the formula:
Z' = Z^2 + C

There was really no other information. No artist drew it and it wasn't a product of evolution. Yet it appears to have patterns and appears to be a product of intelligent design. <<

It is a design made up from HUMAN mathematical constructs. It appears to be the product of intelligent design...because it is.

Analogies are not proof. Data from "stuff" is. Make a measurement, a reading, or whatever. After you have your data, make a hypothesis. Then find a way to test your hypothesis with new information. Form a theory. Let others refute it. If it is useful, others will use it. If not, everyone sends it to the scrap heap.

That is not what NS is doing now.

DK

[b_sharp]

"I don't think it is necessarily true that there is "information" in the genome. For example this fractal image was created with nothing but the formula: "

I'm glad you brought that up. I was a programmer in another life and have, in the istant past, written fractal generators and ported a Unix plant fractal generator to Mac. When I heard anti-evolutionists complaining about a lack of 'information' in the genome, computer programs were the first thing that came to mind as an example of code (algorithm) that produces information rather than just reading information.