Re: dembski review

From: glenn morton (mortongr@flash.net)
Date: Fri Apr 21 2000 - 09:41:33 EDT

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    From: <dfsiemensjr@juno.com>
    To: <gmurphy@raex.com>
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    Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 5:49 PM
    Subject: Re: dembski review

    > One must grant that two copies of the same information produces no
    > increase.

    No, one doesn't need to grant that. Within Shannon's theory, two copies of
    the same sequence yields 1 bit more of information than when it is alone.
    As Yockey said, information is a mathematical object. One can't use
    semantics to deal with it. One must calculate it.

    glenn

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