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17 Aug 08
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Anti-evolutionists use "no new information" and a host of spurious mathematical arguments to "prove" that new information cannot be caused by ordinary physical processes like natural selection.
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Information talk privileges genes over other causal actors in biology
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Information talk biases some functions over others in a way that obscures the multiple complicity of genes in various processes.
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Information is not a physical cause of anything.
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Morphology no longer plays a causal role in biology except as the arrangement of particles and ensembles of particles. Want to explain why protein A cleaves to nucleotide X? Do so in terms of the shape if A and X, but do not stop there - form is the effect of the properties of the parts; the strong and weak bonds, the medium, the ambient energy level, and so on. We might be able to infer similar properties from similar forms, but the full explanation, in biology at any rate, has to include the makeup of the molecules and their degrees of freedom in folding and bonding properties.
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we have to treat information as an abstraction made for our benefit, rather than as an inherent property of the objects themselves.
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