Comments on: Information is magic http://www.uncrediblehallq.net/2009/10/27/information-is-magic/ Best blog name ever Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:27:09 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: proudfootz http://www.uncrediblehallq.net/2009/10/27/information-is-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-5684 proudfootz Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:51:43 +0000 http://www.uncrediblehallq.net/?p=810#comment-5684 The pile of rubble that results from an avalanche is also matter organized in a particular way, which a wise person could interpret as 'information' about how the pile got there, when it happened, etc. But I think you are correct that an explanation of the brute physical facts about the natural processes that create the structure shows that the 'information' is merely a by-product of a non-teleological system. It seems that the creationist is very apt to confuse an analogy or poetic metaphor for literal reality. The pile of rubble that results from an avalanche is also matter organized in a particular way, which a wise person could interpret as ‘information’ about how the pile got there, when it happened, etc. But I think you are correct that an explanation of the brute physical facts about the natural processes that create the structure shows that the ‘information’ is merely a by-product of a non-teleological system.

It seems that the creationist is very apt to confuse an analogy or poetic metaphor for literal reality.

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