Natural Selection
as a Filter to Remove Informational Noise
In evolutionary theory it is proposed that natural selection provides
a kind of filtration process which removes the random noise of bad mutations
from the genetic
information. This enables those randomly occurring changes (mutations) which
are beneficial and therefore not noise, to be preserved and to predominate.
Therefore, the genetic
information of a species supposedly can enlarge and be refined by natural
selection and evolution can take place without violating the laws of information
theory and of
thermodynamics. As will be shown in Chapter-4,
however, the mathematical probability of this happening is essentially zero.
Non-living chemical systems have neither the cell structures, the coded instructions,
nor the translation machinery to enable them to accomplish what living systems do. In a
limited way coded instructions originating in the brains of chemists, and complex
equipment in the chemists' laboratories, have produced outside of living organisms a few
of the reactions and products characteristic of life. However, chemical reactions planned
and controlled by intelligent chemists are in no way comparable with hypothetical random
reactions of simple chemicals in some imaginary primeval pond or ocean.
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