Re: Dawkins Video

Cliff Lundberg (cliff@noevalley.com)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 20:56:34 -0700

Glenn R. Morton wrote:

> "Professor Dawkins, can you give an example of a genetic mutation
> or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the
> information in the genome?"

Why was this a hard question for Dawkins? Surely he's well aware of
the points made recently here about letter-scrambling (analogous
to random mutation) increasing information. Was Dawkins thinking of
information in some other sense?

-- Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noevalley.com