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"You know, that might be a good question if it was asked seriously. A lot of this might be fun to discuss with different people.

It is asked in earnest. I have yet to find anyone who can practically explain why 'information increase' is necessary and sufficient for evolution but simple genomic change is insufficient. Nor has anyone explained why simple changes in the genome can and does leads only to a decrease in this 'information'.

It has been impossible to get the information-aholics to stick with just one theory of information, or at least to define when, where and why the different ToIs are to be applied.

1,051 posted on 03/01/2006 2:00:12 PM PST by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)

I used "info" as an informal metaphor for the DNA strand, so I think we are talking of different things. The Y strand can lose some of its former "data" upon recombination. IOW, it doesn't replicate as exactly as its counterpart. It also does not have as much going on to start with. And it does change.