For Christians (or anyone else) who deny Darwinian evolution.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Which string contains the most data and which contains the most information?


String A:

0000000000000000000000000000000000000000


String B:

123456789012345678901234567890


String C:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234

 There equal because non of them represent information nor data. The numbers and letters have nothing assigned to them to believe they are anything at all.

Way to go avoiding answering a question. Using the same argument DNA contains no information because G, T, A and C have nothing assigned to them. Yet we know for sure that you accept that DNA contains information because otherwise you wouldn't be describing how recessive genes lead to a white spot in rottweilers. So we can see that you are deliberately being intellectually dishonest here.

OK, let's say that the strings above describe a system of 30 or 40 mechanisms that interact with each other. Each letter corresponds to the type of mechanism. The order in which the mechanisms appear is also important and affects how the system works.

If I want to give you the simplest recipe for recreating the system without losing information about it then I would tell you:

System A is 40 mechanisms of type 0.
System B is 3 sequences of mechanisms where each sequence is '1234567890'
System C can only be described as a single sequence of 30 mechanisms of types  'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234'

So I could encode this as:

System A: 40x0
System B: 3x1234567890
System C: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234

String A has more data (40 characters) but the least information is required to recreate it
String C has the most information but the same amount of characters (data) as String B.

Now imagine we mutated the type of one of the mechanisms of String A to get String D:

0000000000Z00000000000000000000000000000

The simplest way of describing this system without losing information is 10 mechanisms of type 0, 1 mechanism of type Z following by 29 mechanisms of type 0.

System D: 10x0, 1xZ, 29x0

See, new information has been added to the description of a system because of a mutation.