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Tortoise has studied information theory, and apparently uses it in his profession. His opinion is that information theory and evolution do not conflict, since evolution is not random. Still, maybe he could post here to better explain his position. (assuming I am not misrepresenting his position).

His opinion is that information theory and evolution do not conflict, since evolution is not random.

I should not have said 'random.' The more correct term would probably have been non-directed, but there could be a more accurate term still. Pulsars are non-random and non-directed, and their signals contain no information.

Shalom.

His opinion is that information theory and evolution do not conflict, since evolution is not random.

This isn't actually my opinion, or at least not the way I would represent it. Creation/speciation/evolution has no meaningful mathematical (or physical) relation to information theory, and I am really arguing against people using it at all to "prove" their point. I know this isn't immediately obvious from the directions some of these discussions have gone. Any apparent relationship is largely a result of misunderstanding and/or misapplying the concepts of one or both.

That said, evolution is a mathematically solid concept with lots of practical application in the domain of system optimization. Whether or not it is the actual mechanism of speciation and original critter creation is certainly arguable; the mathematics only says that it is feasible.