timothya
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Joined: April 2013
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Via UD:
| Quote | | An essential, falsifiable prediction of Darwinian theory, therefore, is that functional information must, on average, increase over time. |
Eh? Why is it an "essential" prediction from evolutionary theory that the amount of information in a genome must increase. I'm pretty sure it will change in makeup over time via drift, but why must it increase? And does anyone know of evolutionary theorists who think that it does?
Even the "therefore", which points to a previous paragraph doesn't support the statement as far as I can see - except in the trivial sense that early life probably had simpler genomes than any found today. But why is it necessary within any lineage for genome information quantity to increase (or decrease for that matter)?
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