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A crystal is a low-information state, low entropy. It doesn't take much to describe a crystal, the lattice descriptor, the origin, and how much salt. One can even tell exactly how many flaws a crystal will have if given the temperature.

The meaning of "information" w/respect to states of matter or energy is a matter, I aver, of viewpoint, not fixed to a particular stochastic meaning as I think you assume--The reason it can't be considered a vital consideration regarding the reliability of evolutionary theory. I can write a message with crystal flaws. How can I write a message with amorphous gas molecules in a uniformly random suspension? My point being that there are no fixed gradiants I can leverage to store or pass a message in a uniformly distributed gas suspension--because the entropy has, regarding this question, been maxed by gasation, as compared to crystals.