EvoBIO

Whales and hippos are closely related! They share a common ancestor that lived about 60 million years ago. Whales and hippos both belong to the order Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates). Both groups communicate using sounds underwater.

~ Ryan A. Chavez

~ Ryan A. Chavez

Creationists often fail to grasp the fundamental nature of information, which can arise from intelligent design or natural processes. From the perspective of information theory, biological information is the measurable difference between the maximum and actual entropy of a system, making it highly dependent on context. The introduction of new sequence variations through mutation can either increase or decrease informational content based on statistical methods and population models. A creationist might assert that a chihuahua genome contains less information—using some ill-defined metric for information—since dogs ultimately evolved from ancient grey wolf ancestors, the chihuahua genome can't be found in the grey wolf, so the chihuahua genome contains unique or more “information.” ... Claude Shannon is perhaps rolling in his grave at this point.

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~ Ryan A. Chavez