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Jul. 14th, 2009 02:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maradyddBy 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.
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.
Resources?
Date: 2009-07-28 04:30 pm (UTC)It's been a long time since I read anything by Shannon (brief communications stint back in my undergrad EE days).
Anyway, I'm bad at math, but I do like reading about stuff like this. Can anyone point me to (a) some accessible resources on information theory and (b) maybe a few scholarly papers that would be way above my head anyway? Who's doing research on naturalistic origins of information?