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[maradydd]

By way of Pharyngula, apparently the creationists are starting to abuse information theory, not just physics, in their tortured attempts to justify their doctrine.

Of course, you understand, this means war.

ETA: /me reads the comments. Oh. Apparently creationists reject Claude Shannon's work on information theory. Infidels. They shall be first against the wall when the revolution comes.

One thing that I will never understand is why creationists believe that an omniscient God is bad at math.

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[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Ooh, not yet. I've read a bunch of his papers and his lecture notes from the Estonian Winter School that he taught at a few years ago, and have been slogging my way slowly through Algorithmic Information Theory, which has a lot of executable code in a micro-lisp that he doesn't spend a whole lot of time explaining. Exploring Randomness sounds like a good first course before tackling AIT again; I'll look for it, thanks!

[enochsmiles.livejournal.com]

I have a copy, of course. :)