(July 3, 2014 at 12:34 am)TheDeafPianoTuner Wrote: I've been seeing this argument by creationists that goes something along these lines: "mutations don't increase information in the genes, therefore mutation cannot account for an increase in complexity"
Take this code: 11111111
Modify it to: 10011010
There is actually more information entropy in the second code than the first. Actually a completely random code has a greater informational entropy than a more uniform code. How you define which code is more complex is entirely up to you, just as you could have a pointless argument over whether a squirrel is more complex than a cat.
This is not the same as Heat Entropy. The word entropy is used as the formula to calculate it is similar*. This isn't unusual, most things in physics have similar fomulas. For example a driven mass on a spring uses the same mathematics as a simple radio. Information entropy doesn't follow the 2nd law of Thermodynamics. Creationists love to equate the two but they are different*.
Finally some mutations double the original DNA, resulting in a code ABDC going to ABDC ABDC so you end up with twice the DNA. This can then mutate to become something like ABDCABDB.
*If you want to study statistical mechanics then you will see more similarities and learn that the 2nd Law is actually just very very likely to happen, not definitely.
