Darwin Unhinged: The Bugs in Evolution

When we think of the religious view of a designer, our brains assume something like a person in the sky working literally with his hands.  Maybe it doesn't have to be that way.

 I am trying to hold back from ragging on these ideas, but cannot help myself on this one.  Natural processes operate on two distinct levels, physical and informational.  There may be more levels than two.  Each of these levels has its own variables and measurables.  Transformational events do occur at the physical level - and in an equal fashion but by different means - on the informational level.

Darwin believed in mental evolution.  If mind, as information processing, is a major factor in evolution then researching the development of purposeful behavior is as important as researching bone structures of extinct species.  It is the neoDarwinists who took over the narrative as Darwin aged.  Until the advent of information theory the science behind bioinformatic evolution was not "real" in the debate.

Natural processes are generative of stable "lower entropy"* patterns.  This is well understood, even without the stored observations of millions of years of life in the "operating systems" of living things.  Compare with chaos theory, which is on firm ground.  If design exists in inanimate objects, how simple it is to embrace design from the information processing of living things.  Bacteria are more cunning than than they are given credit.

NeoDarwinian models of "lucky physical accidents" can be replaced by empirically measured gains in integrated information.

  Chaos theory is a mathematical theory that can be used to explain complex systems such as weather, astronomy, politics, and economics. Although many complex systems appear to behave in a random manner, chaos theory shows that, in reality, there is an underlying order that is difficult to see.

Please note that underlying order is measured in information theory, which includes thermodynamics, logic and the mathematical theory of communication, as well as newly developing tools. Forces and materials science properties do not have a logical component to address purposeful function.  Only by seeing the reality of information processes in all nature can we get a framework for bioevolution.

*(higher negentropy as structured information)